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I'm writing a German document and thus I need äÄöÖüÜß to work. However I don't use it this way: "a"A"o... I just type äÄö...

My Problem is that "Test" s is displayed as "Testß

Here is a MWE:

% !TEX encoding=latin1

documentclass{article}

usepackage[ngerman]{babel}

usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}

usepackage[T1]{fontenc} 



begin{document}

"Test" s

end{document}

The character " should never be used in running text to denote quotes. For double English quotes, use

``Test'' s

If you want German style quotes, use

"`Test"' s

With UTF-8 input, you can use

“Test” s

for English style and

„Test“ s

for German style. The alternative glqq Testgrqq s is less convenient.

Examples:

documentclass[a4paper]{article}

usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

%usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % not needed with LaTeX after 2018-04-01

usepackage[ngerman]{babel}



usepackage{upquote,booktabs} % for the table



begin{document}



begin{tabular}{lll}

toprule

multicolumn{1}{c}{Style} &

multicolumn{1}{c}{Input} &

multicolumn{1}{c}{Output} \

midrule

English & verb|``Test'' s| & ``Test'' s

\

English & verb|“Test” s| & “Test” s

\

German & verb|"`Test"' s| & "`Test"' s

\

German & verb|„Test“ s| & „Test“ s

\

German & verb|glqq Testgrqq s| & glqq Testgrqq s

\

bottomrule

end{tabular}



end{document}

Solution 3: use left and right quotes in the source too, as David Carlisle auggested:

documentclass{article}

usepackage[ngerman]{babel}

usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}

usepackage[T1]{fontenc} 



begin{document}

“Test”s, and “test” s too (but I’d use “test”~s, then).

end{document}

This is the output I get:

If you want to use latin1 (which is ISO 8859-1), then I have collected two solutions which are already mentioned in the comments.

The problem is, that in some cases* "A, "O, "U, "a, "o, "u, "s are
commands for special characters (instead of "A, "O or ss{} for
example). So LaTeX cannot know what you mean in your example.

*Depending on the loaded packages, in this case, the babel package.

documentclass{article}

usepackage[ngerman]{babel}

usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}

usepackage[T1]{fontenc} 



usepackage{csquotes}



begin{document}



section*{They are all the same regarding the ß}



begin{itemize}

item "Test" s

item " s

item "s

item But: " s % Thanks to comment of user Dũng Vũ

end{itemize}



section*{Solution 1: Use texttt{babel}'s quotation marks}

% See also https://www.namsu.de/Extra/befehle/Anfuehrungszeichen.html

% https://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX-W%C3%B6rterbuch:_Anf%C3%BChrungszeichen

% glqq --> German Left Double Quote

% grqq --> German Right Double Quote

% glq --> German Left Single Quote

% grq --> German Right Single Quote



begin{itemize}

item glqq Testgrqq s (Don't forget the textbackslash after the command)

item glq Testgrq s

end{itemize}



section*{Solution 2: Use the texttt{csquote} package}

% For more information, have a look at the manual

% https://ctan.org/pkg/csquotes



enquote{Test} s



end{document}

Note: On the screenshot, you see on the bottom right that I use the correct encoding in the editor, in this case ISO-8859-1 which is latin1.