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This was probably composed in something like Word and pasted into the comment field. Some fonts in Word use special characters like the open and closing quotes are comma shaped, but reversed facing opposite directions to enclose the quote even though the same keyboard key is used. The characters there are because the original font used the special comma shaped apostrophe not the straight one on most keyboards and fonts. The internal codes are different and not printable in the font used on the web page.

Example

The first does not translate well in some fonts.

i cant remember

Many a mickle makes a muckle.

I think the three characters are actually what is in the code like an escape character sequence which is interpreted by Word, for example, but simply printed by the browser which does not recognize the escape.