Quick summary

Normally, the wptexturize filter will replace the “straight” quotation marks ("") with the curly ones (“”). in 2019, a change was introduced to update the way in which wptexturize works specifically for ES websites so that the the “straight” quotation marks ("") are now replaced with the official Spanish ones («»). (This was also discussed in pbg9X-dST-p2)

This had been working correctly on both simple and AT sites but today I noticed that only the closing quotation mark is showing ».

Steps to reproduce

1. Set a site's language to Spanish (ES_es).
2. Create a new post and include a string of text between quotation marks somewhere in the post, the title, or the content.
3. Publish the post.
4. Visit your site to see the post.

What you expected to happen

I expected the default quotation marks to be replaced with the ES ones (« »). This is exactly what happens on a self-hosted site:

What actually happened

On simple sites, only the closing Spanish Quotation mark is shown (« »):

Source URL: https://mrfoxtalbot.wordpress.com/2023/10/05/no-volvere-a-ser-joven-de-gil-de-biedma/

In the case of Atomic sites, none is shown at all.

Source URL: https://mrfxvanillaat.wpcomstaging.com/2023/10/24/test/

Impact

All

Available workarounds?

No but the platform is still usable

Platform (Simple and/or Atomic)

Simple, Atomic

Logs or notes

I have not tested this automatically but I do not think there are any workarounds.