: Re: Why am I getting a strange double quote (â€œ) in Open Office instead of the ordinary one (")? Why am I getting a strange double quote (â€œ) in Open Office instead of the ordinary one (")?

You need to go to Tools - Autocorrect - Autocorrect Options - Localised Options. There you can pick the kind of double quotes and single quotes you like. (Source. Note the source tries to do the exact opposite - get the curly quotation marks. Shouldn't make a difference though.)

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