Thank you.

I tried this (included in my header) and I get the result I want visually 
in the PDF:

```
\setuplanguage[en-gb][
  leftquotation=“,
  rightquotation=”,
  leftquote=‘,
  rightquote=’,
]
```

On Wednesday, 2 August 2023 at 16:55:36 UTC+2 Bastien DUMONT wrote:

> As you saw in the ConTeXt outputs, whatever language you set in the 
> metadata, Pandoc will always identify double quotes as primary quotes and 
> single quotes as secondary quotes. How they are rendered in PDF depends on 
> ConTeXt. To alter the rendering of British English, you will need to use 
> the macro \setuplanguage (
> https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/setuplanguage).
>
> Le Wednesday 02 August 2023 à 07:10:40AM, Thomas Hodgson a écrit :
> > When I have a markdown file like this:
> > 
> > ```
> > 'foo'
> > "bar"
> > ```
> > 
> > The result of `pandoc --to=context foo.md` is `\quote{foo} 
> \quotation{bar}`.
> > The result of `pandoc --to=context --output=foo.pdf foo.md` is what I 
> would
> > expect: single quotes around 'foo' and double quotes around 'bar'. The 
> output
> > of `pandoc --metadata=lang:en-GB --to=context foo.md` is the same. But, 
> the
> > output of `pandoc --metadata=lang:en-GB --to=context --output=foo.pdf 
> foo.md`
> > has double quotes around 'foo' and single quotes around 'bar'.
> > 
> > I could solve this by using double quotes where I want single, and vice 
> versa.
> > But that will give the wrong result for HTML from the same source. Also, 
> I'm
> > sure that I would forget half the time.
> > 
> > I assume that this happens because Pandoc treats the double quote as the 
> 'top'
> > level of quotes, which in US English is a double quote and in UK English 
> (in
> > this case, confusingly) is a single quote. I don't think it's a bug, 
> therefore.
> > 
> > I think that the same thing happens with csquotes and LaTeX. But there I 
> don't
> > turn on csquotes.
> > 
> > Is there some way to get the behaviour I want while still using British
> > English?
> > 
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