Can one change the style of the double quotation mark? ("" to „“)

[withnogenes]

What I’m trying to do

Hello everyone,

is there a way to change the style of the double quotation marks in obsidian? Let me explain: Im writing my phd thesis in germany and unfortunately the right way to use quotation marks is like this: „Insert quotation“.
The standard application of english using “” or the curly ones unfortunately doesn’t help me.

Thank you all very much!

Things I have tried

Google, Forum search and a first skimming through the community plugins didnt help.

[gino_m]

You can continue to use the dumb quotes then apply regex changes on the page (or all pages, if you use an external program) when done, like so:

regex101: build, test, and debug regex

You can use a text editor like Notepad++, Sublime Text, etc. where you need to tick regex (regular expression) to be able to make the replacements.

• Example on how to use regex in Notepad++. Just use the match and replace parts from the regex101 site above.

Or alternatively, you can do it right here in Obsidian.

• You can find some help with that here.

[CawlinTeffid]

They’re separate character. I recommend learning how to type them — on Mac or IOS it should be relatively easy (on iOS, long-press the quote key for more quote characters). If you’re on a system that doesn’t make it easy, you may want to use a text-replacement app to setup a keyboard shortcut, or Obsidian’s templates (there’s a community plugin that will let you assign them to a hotkey).

For existing ones you’ll need to do search-replace, as gino says.

I believe it is possible to use CSS to choose your quote character if you use the HTML inline quote elements <q></q> instead of actual quotation marks, but i’m not sure I’d recommend it.