Am 14.09.2013 um 15:34 schrieb john Culleton <John@wexfordpress.com>:

> Excellent! Now in MKIV how would I encode an opening quote mark American
> style? In previous TeX programs it was always ``. The MKIV substitute
> \quotation{foo} 
> is not practical for my application, where the raw input code
> may use the ditto mark " for both opening and closing quotes. I am
> looking for something in MKIV equivalent to \char92 in plain TeX. On
> the unicode table I find the hex value 008013 but I don't know how to
> plug that in to a macro that redefines the first occurrence of " to be
> that character, and the second occurrence to be hex 000814 etc. I can
> write the macro, I just need the expression equivalent to \char that
> gives me such characters in MKIV.

Are you sure these are the correct values?

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/8013/index.htm


What’s wrong with \char?

\starttext

\char"201C TEXT\char"201D

\utfchar{"201C}TEXT\utfchar{"201D}

\fontchar{quotedblleft}TEXT\fontchar{quotedblright}

\stoptext

Wolfgang