I coudln't find out how to use the "lang: de" option (link) properly. That is, while tables are correctly named "Tabelle", the following settings:
---
title: "German quotation marks"
author: "will"
date: "24 J?nner 2018"
output: pdf_document
---
"Das ist sehr sch?n", sagte sie.
Produce this output:
![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Nbn1E.png)
whereas the following is needed:
![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wpztt.png)
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