Encoding and escaping in Latex

For left double quote use `` (two backticks) and for right double quote use '' (two apostrophes)

>>260137
Thank you for the reply, but the guidelines say I can't use those...
Any more ideas to escape symbols?

>>260145
Those are the standard open/close double quotes in LaTeX. So you're required to use LaTeX, and you're also required to have open/close double quotes be “ and ”? Maybe you need to use a package like upquote. Or maybe latexpdf has some option to do that.

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>>260118
to find symbols for latex use
http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html

\textquotedblleft “
\quotedblbase ”

>>260156
I don't make the rules, I just work here... I also can't include special packages because it is a subproject for a much bigger file. I assume including more packages could lead to problems later on.

>>260204
Thanks, I will check this out. Looks like a great site.

>>260156
I realize I have been stupid. Thanks great master, your first post works now for me, I must have done something wrong.

Now I have another problem.
When I insert larger texts, everything is displayed correctly inside miktex, however when compiling I get errors:

! Missing $ inserted.
<inserted text>
$

And then a line, with unknown symbols in the middle of words. They words look completely normal and don't contain any special characters, and the errors disappear once I delete the words and type them again.
Am I missing something here? I tried copying the text out of a plain txt fail encoded in utf-8.

I narrowed it down, the error only occurs on inserted "f", and it only occurs for about 3/4 of inserted "f"s.
Am I missing something obvious? Does Tex just hate f?

>>260584
f+i and f+l get merged during compilation. maybe you should explore something related