> The end quote with a period inside it ends the sentence. What a weird interpretation. Two characters shouldn't be needed to end a sentence, only a period can

> The end quote with a period inside it ends the sentence. What a weird interpretation. Two characters shouldn't be needed to end a sentence, only a period can end a sentence. It'd be a lot easier to postulate the period inside ends the sentence and the quotation mark ends the quote that just ran outside the end of the sentence by one character.