enabled pretty quotation marks

pelicanconf.py

@@ -122,7 +122,23 @@ IMAGE_PROCESS = {
     "card": ["scale_in 350 100% True"]
 }
 
-
+# enable smarty extension and configure it to substitute quotation marks 
+MARKDOWN = {
+    'extension_configs': {
+        'markdown.extensions.codehilite': {'css_class': 'highlight'},
+        'markdown.extensions.extra': {},
+        'markdown.extensions.meta': {},
+        'smarty': {
+            'substitutions': {
+                'left-single-quote': '‚', 
+                'right-single-quote': '‘',
+                'left-double-quote': '„',
+                'right-double-quote': '“'
+            }
+        },
+    },
+    'output_format': 'html5',
+}
 
 
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