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anyone using unicode quotes is insane, honestly any form of unicode character that is a duplicate of an ascii character should be avoided as it just adds uneeded complexity
use compose key and alt gr for rare, one of characters and you will never look back, stuff like diacritics/accents
You are the second person who mentions it but I don't know what you mean. Got any links for compose key?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key the wikipedia page for it
in short, with it you can press Compose then some diacritic/accent then the letter
something like this <Compose> ` a -> à
unfortunaely it is a Linux and BSD thing only that stems from Xorg's compatibility with many legacy system some of which had a dedicated compose key thus it was added to xkdb (which still used by Wayland compositors and thus the compose key works fine there) and to Xorg
In Plasma (formely KDE) there is a setting in the keyboard layout section that allows you to bind compose key to something like left control, GNOME as always doesnt has this by default you will need an extension, which one? idk, havent used gnome in years, you could also just figure out how to use xkdb directly but it is a mess and a complete pain to understand how to, I myself have no idea and would want to stay away from it, as for other DEs I am unaware if they provide a GUI for changing this or not