How do you pronounce ``''?

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>>15
Not >>10, but here's one way to do it with X.

# ~/.XCompose
include "/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose"

<Multi_key> <quotedbl> <Left> : "“" U201C # LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
<Multi_key> <quotedbl> <Right> : "”" U201D # RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
<Multi_key> <apostrophe> <Left> : "‘" U2018 # LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
<Multi_key> <apostrophe> <Right> : "’" U2019 # RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK

Then just hit compose followed by double or single quote and the left or right arrow. The bindings can be whatever you want, of course. If you don't have a compose key, add one with xmodmap. I use the “menu” key.


As an aside, documentation for X really sucks. Google "xcompose". You'd expect to get some sort of man page detailing the purpose and format of the file. Instead, the first related result is a bug report at #3. The first helpful result is all the way at #13, and it's a fucking blog.