I find it interesting that the article includes a German keyboard that doesn't include the proper ,,'' (or ,') quotation glyphs. However it does include grave and acute accents as well as French primary quotations (<< and >>) though not the secondary guillemots (quotation characters < and >) none of which are used in German text.
And of course I used ascii analogues to type these into HN :-(
>And of course I used ascii analogues to type these into HN :-(
But why, though? To the best of my knowledge, HN supports unicode quite well, including the following quotes: »«›‹„“‚‘ (available with the help of AltGr and sometimes shift from keys y, x, v, b when selecting the German keyboard layout on my computer).
And of course I used ascii analogues to type these into HN :-(