Why does “appear” like “when I use the quicksand font in Google fonts?

I want to print "" on a web page. I am writing a character using UTF-8 (no character character)

Using the special “Quicksand” font-weight 700 font from google web-font dierectory, it points to the left, not the right. Other fonts from dierectory work great.

I want to call the & raquo character, but the one I get is

They are also called: Corner quotation mark, left, charcode: & # 171;
Corner quote icon, right character: & # 187;