In Pages Preferences > Auto Correction, you can select "Use smart quotes", which automatically turns " to “ or ” depending on the context, so "hello" becomes “hello”. This works fine for English. However, in many other languages the rules are different so quotation marks and apostrophes can be some of the following characters in different combinations:
‚ „ ’ ” “ « » ‹ ›
Smart quotes work the English way, when you run Pages in English or any other language except German. When you run it in German it applies the quotation marks like this: „hallo“, which is correct for German.
Pages gets this information from the language in System Preferences > International > Language. It does not get it from the language set in the Inspector > Text > More.
This is sometimes exactly what you want. If you write an English text and add a German quotation, you may not want a German Anführungszeichen for that single phrase.
In many cases you have to type the characters manually. This is the case if you want to type «guillemets», like in French or Italian.
To find out how to type a character with your particular keyboard layout, use the Keyboard Viewer.
Wikipedia has much more information regarding the use of quotation marks or apostrophes.
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