after consulting the kmail in my desktop machine i found where the quote character can be set, on the composing > templates page in the extrme southeastern corner. didn't see it at first because the scrollbars are not easy to discern at a glance. wish there were an easy way to make the slider a contrasting color from the scrollbar itself. but, anyway, it's solved.
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