Subject: It's possible!
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Posted on: 2023-04-01 15:59:24 UTC
The one I vaguely remembered (but still had to look up to confirm) was French, but that doesn't rule you out. {= )
Irish novelist James Joyce also did this, though, among other idiosyncrasies that all together make his work extremely difficult to read. Apparently he regarded inverted commas as "perverted commas." Personally, I don't think that's a valid excuse...
~Neshomeh has gone over to smart-quotes in her works and has even memorized the Alt+ keyboard codes for them.