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Asked: 2026-05-21T04:57:35+00:00

I am trying to create a textblock with oversized quotes at the start and

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I am trying to create a textblock with oversized quotes at the start and end of some text, which I’ve managed to do with the following xaml:

<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
  <TextBlock Text="&quot;" FontSize="56" VerticalAlignment="Top" />
  <TextBlock TextWrapping="Wrap" Width="350">
      This is some text to be quoted!
  </TextBlock>
  <TextBlock Text="&quot;" FontSize="56" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" />
</StackPanel>

But what I’d really like is for the quote characters to be curved in towards the text, rather than just the straight up and down variety quotes. Is there any way to do this without an image for the quotes?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Maybe the Unicode value for single and double curly quotes will help you:

    <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
  <TextBlock Text="&quot;" FontSize="56" VerticalAlignment="Top" />
  <TextBlock TextWrapping="Wrap" Width="350">
      &#8220;This is some text to be quoted!&#8221;
      or      
      &#8216;This is some text to be quoted!&#8217;
  </TextBlock>
  <TextBlock Text="&quot;" FontSize="56" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" />
</StackPanel>
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