IOS keyboard quotation marks

Hello,
I've been wondering about this for a while and now that iOS 8 made some leaps with the keyboard, hopefully what I want is now possible. Fair warning this is rather specific.
The default quote marks on iOS look like this: "quote."
But if possible, I want the default quote marks to be these “quote.” with the little tails on them. To get them now, I have to hold the quote mark key and slide over from the pop up menu to get the marks I want on the onscreen keyboard. In short, I want the same style quote marks you get from typing on a computer. You type, hit shift and the quote key, and the marks are oriented up or down based on the beginning of end of the quote. I also like to use an external bluetooth keyboard and tapping and holding the quote key on the external keyboard doesn't bring up the shortcut menu to get the quote marks I want. Just does this: '''''''''''
Is there any way to accomplish what I want? Is there another keyboard that I can set as default that has the “ ” marks I seek? Will that cause the exerternal keyboard to render the marks I want as well? Is there as shortcut similar to tapping the shift key on a regualr computer keyboard?
I've tried on my own to see if I can settle this but everything comes back to needing up the menu under the one quotation key, which is very annoying.
Any advice is appreciated.
Thanks!

What you are asking for was called “smart quotes” — an option with some of the earliest versions of MacOS, way back in the mid-1980s.

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