diff --git a/src/gamedata/fonts/v_font.cpp b/src/gamedata/fonts/v_font.cpp
index 9f595788d..0ed18de51 100644
--- a/src/gamedata/fonts/v_font.cpp
+++ b/src/gamedata/fonts/v_font.cpp
@@ -857,6 +857,11 @@ int stripaccent(int code)
 		static const uint16_t u200map[] = {0xc4, 0xe4, 0xc2, 0xe2, 0xcb, 0xeb, 0xca, 0xea, 0xcf, 0xef, 0xce, 0xee, 0xd6, 0xf6, 0xd4, 0xe4, 'R', 'r', 'R', 'r', 0xdc, 0xfc, 0xdb, 0xfb, 0x15e, 0x15f, 0x162, 0x163};
 		return u200map[code - 0x200];
 	}
+	else if (code == 0x201d)
+	{
+		// Map the typographic upper quotation mark to the generic form
+		code = '"';
+	}
 	
 	// skip the rest of Latin characters because none of them are relevant for modern languages.