Googling on <E2><80><9C> finds a beginning double quote on some German sites, and I assume that the other is an ending qdouble quote. UTF-8 has some 3 character codes, so you may want to start there.
Thanks, it never occurred to me to google it. I should have said the '<...>' stuff was cut & pasted from catting in an xterm and never thought to search for occurences.