When using /commands, one may use "quotes" to surround an argument containing spaces to get it to be treated as a single string.
However, this does not work when using “curly quotes”. The curly quotes are interpreted as literal characters instead of quotation marks.
Tests to reproduce
/effect @p "l o l" 5 . Note that the syntax error points to »l o l«
/effect @p “l o l” 5 . Note that the syntax error points to »“l«
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As I understand it this is primarily a problem on iOS devices because of the soft keyboard behaviour - it inserts curly quotes by default.