Special characters and exporting to CSV

I'm trying to concatentate a number of strings and cells containing strings to return a single string which will also contain double and single quotes. Such as
"The is 'my' return string and I need "this" in double quotes".
Is this possible?
The second part of this is that i then need to export this as a CSV file however when I've exported double and single quotes from Numbers they appear in the CSV as some unprintable weird figure rather than " and '.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, I can't see any documentation going to this level of detail. I've never had this issue with other spreadsheet programs.
Thanks,

oops
I used smart double quotes not smart single ones.
I edited the doc and here are curly single quotes.
imported in neoOffice with utf8
imported in neoOffice with macRoman
imported in openOffice with utf8
imported in openOffice with macRoman
You may find the files in my iDisk :
<http://public.me.com/koenigyvan>
Download :
For_iWork:iWork '09:for_Numbers09:around CSV.zip
CAUTION
As my system is French, the CSV are using the semi-colon as separator.
Take care of that when you import in one Office application.
I just wish to add that opening a csv describing a spreadsheet in TextEdit is a bit curious
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 14 avril 2010 16:18:16

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