Note not working.

[Cranky Old Man]

And still nothing. I'll try a full change to quotes but I think that won't work either. Just made it worse, went back to ' and it works, but still nothing with note.

I wasn't talking about just replacing one or two single quotes, or removing a few spaces, because I think if there's a single error in a lang file, the whole file will get thrown out.
I'll be looking into single quotes in lang files in a few months, but that's far away for you.
Single quotes work in regular XML, but double quotes (" - not “ (double high-6) or ” (double high-9)) should not "make it worse" (whatever that means). If your lang file still fails with double quotes, it's not because of your computer having personal issues with double quotes, but something else than the quotes.