[Tex/LaTex] French-style quotes look ugly

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I want to use French-style quotes like so: «Quote»

So i replaced the quotes with \flqq{} and \frqq{} but unfortunately it looks very ugly (see example) is there a way to have the french quotes looking good ? (like in this text)

frenchquotes

edit: I need to use \usepackage[ngerman]{babel} to use e.g. Umlauts (ä,ö,ü)

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\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} results in correct «French Quotes»

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[Tex/LaTex] Replace “quotes” with „quotes“

Using the csquotes package allows logical mark up of quotes. That includes 'short' quotes, which I personally would avoid but was asked for so ...

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[german]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\MakeOuterQuote{"}
\begin{document}
\enquote{Labas rytas}

"Labas rytas"
\end{document}

(Lithuanian babel doesn't seem to work 'out of the box', so I've used German as the standard quotation style is the same.)

[Tex/LaTex] n alternative way to double quote in Latex

LaTeX provides:

\textquotedblleft for “,
\textquotedblright for ”,
\textquoteleft for ‘ and
\textquoteright for ’.

You can define your own macro:

\newcommand\dblquote[1]{\textquotedblleft #1\textquotedblright}
\newcommand\sglquote[1]{\textquoteleft #1\textquoteright}

Or you use the csquotes package that provides nested language sensitive quote enclosing:

\enquote{Phrase\enquote{inner quote}}

For single quotes:

\enquote*{Phrase}

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