Windows 10 Missing Left Double Quotation Mark Glyph in Character Map

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This is so weird.

I am simply trying to type an open double quotes symbol in Windows 10 that should look like this:

Open double quotes symbol

Actually, I'm trying to replace wrongly interpolated quotes symbols in an ANSI encoded text document, but I'll address that in a separate post. First thing's first.

Several sources on the internet offer matter-of-fact ways to type in UNICODE characters using only a Windows keyboard. I'm in the US so I'm using "US-QWERTY" keyboard layout.

WHAT I TRIED SO FAR

You would have thought this would just be simple, but it isn't. Here is what I have tried already:

1) This WebNots post says that "ALT 8220" should give me the required unicode character:

Left Double Quotation Mark   “   201C    Alt 8220

But, it does not. When I hold down the right ALT key and type "8220" into the numeric keypad and then release the ALT key, this is the character I get this instead:

Result of ALT 8220 on Windows 10? lower left right angle bracket

This is a lower left right angle bracket glyph ---> Nothing near a LEFT DOUBLE QUOTE!

2) Do other ALT characters display correctly? YES. For instance, the neutral double quote (ALT + 0034, pictured below) displays just fine:

Neutral double quotation mark = ALT + 0034

3) So it doesn't seem to be an issue with incorrect character mapping. But, just in case I looked into that possibility. Following this post I checked to see if the document incorrectly coded. It turned out to be correctly (as far as I can tell) encoded as ANSI, because when I changed the encoding to UTF-8 there were all kinds of "x" codes displayed instead of characters.

How to replace Unicode Character in Notepad++

4) Here is a quick table showing the unicode characters for various quotation mark types:

Unicode quotation types table

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html

MY QUESTION

Why is Windows 10 not letting me type any directional quotes/left double quotes/open double quotes

NOTE: This is NOT the issue with having to press twice that some are having.

RESOURCES

To avoid cluttering this post too much here are some other links that I also referenced that seemed relevant, but did not result in a solution.

Eric Hepperle - CodeSlayer2010

Posted 2019-11-16T13:23:38.847

Reputation: 224

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