@vicorva I think my preference for single double quotes might have something to do with how I tend to use the same character for single quotes and apostrophes, and thus you could end up in situations where there would be an apostrophe right before a single closing quote: 'That's James'', which would look weirder to me than "That's James'". I guess I I could solve this by using grave accent and backticks, so you'd have `That's James'´, but that would take too much conscious typing and use of the alt-graph key.
In Dutch I grew up using quotes where the first one is more like double lying commas, such as 🙸That's James'🙷 or „That's James'” or ones that are hanging but tilted towards the word, such as ‟That's James'”, though those are even harder to type unless I use my phone. ;)
(Also, I dont think a trailing apostrophe is actually a thing in Dutch.)

My use of quotes might also be heavily influenced by programming though, where single quotes strings are usually not parsed by the programming language, while those in double quotes can often contain variables. Nested quotes of the same type also mean you need to escape them with a backslash, which means I tend to use double quotes for strings so I don't have to worry about apostrophes breaking my string.

When I quote a text, I tend to wrap it in «double angle quotation marks», so I don't have to worry about nested quotes of any kind confusing people where my quote ends and the quotee's quote starts. :)

In my #FiXaNotes browser extension I do have a section with all sorts of quotation marks in case I need to mix and match though.

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