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Where do you define quote marker characters?

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Where do you define quote marker characters as ‘valid’? I have ‘curly quote’ markers selected in Checking > Quotation Rules…, but I still get a bijillion ‘Invalid or unknown character’ errors when I run Basic Checks. The various places to define characters is confusing, so I’ve probably missed it somewhere. Thanks for any help!

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These must me marked as valid in the Character inventory. You should also look at the punctuation inventory.

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Yep. Missed those… [I’m a bit surprised that defining them in ‘Quotation Rules…’ doesn’t automatically mark them as valid characters.] Thanks for pointing them out!

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