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quotation weirdness
It seems to me that quotation mark weirdness is not too unusual.
In this case it may depend on the time period it was written in, or the location. England uses different punctuation marks and spellings than American English. I also noted some differences when I recently read a ebook by an Australian author. It was not huge, but I noted a few things that seemed "off" to me.
I would try and keep it in the spirit of the original, but make it as readable as you can. If that means fixing some of the punctuation marks to conform with modern usages I think that is fine. Just make a note of it at the end.
I tend to fix spellings to conform with modern ones. I think its distracting to the reader to have the old style ones, and unless they actually paid attention to the publication date they may not realize the spellings are simply old style and not errors.
Amy
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