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ShowStringCharacters
• ShowStringCharacters is an option for cells that determines if to display the quotation marks around a string.
• ShowStringCharacters also affects the display of backslashes in strings. If either the quotes are unbalanced or the string contains illegal escaped characters (e.g., \x is not legal), a warning message will be issued and the string displayed as if ShowStringCharacters 
False.
• ShowStringCharacters is typically set to False for output cells and True for input cells.
• ShowStringCharacters is usually set at the level of styles or notebooks rather than at the level of individual cells.
• See also: ShowSpecialCharacters.
