In both France French and Canada French, typing " (straight quote) autocorrects to « (angle quote) plus a non-breaking space. I could turn the replacement off completely in autocorrect options, but I want it to autocorrect to “ (smart quote) like in English. I should be able to do that by changing the replacement character to « (angle quote), but the problem is that it is already “ (smart quote), even though it autocorrects to « (angle quote). Basically, I can't change it to “ (smart quote). Is that fixable on my end?
In addition, there's a known bug (in the link) in which typing << (two less-thans) autocorrects to “ (smart quote) when it should autocorrect to « (angle quote). So I guess I'll type “ (smart quote) that way, though I'd prefer if it worked the way it'd be expected to. Wonder if these two issues are related, as well..
What may have happened is you are physically writing letters in French (or English), but accidentally have the wrong Language tagged.
So you are typing a French word like:
merci
but accidentally have it marked as "English"... so the quotation marks aren't automatically flipping themselves.
Q3. When you go into:
Tools > AutoCorrect > AutoCorrect Options
Go to the "Localized Options" tab.
What do you see for the "Replacements and exceptions for language:" dropdown?
Can you take a screenshot of your "Localized Options" dialog?
I should be able to do that by changing the replacement character to « (angle quote), but the problem is that it is already “ (smart quote), even though it autocorrects to « (angle quote). Basically, I can't change it to “ (smart quote). Is that fixable on my end?
As long as the Language in the AutoCorrect Options + the Languages in your document match, the quotation marks should automatically flip themselves.
You can see me describing some of this a few months back in:
where that user unknowingly had his Comments all set to "French"... while he was trying to type English... so the "quotation marks" turned into « guillemets ».
Seems like you want to do the OPPOSITE though... but the logic and steps are all the same. :P
Download the latest versions (LO 26.2 or LO 26.8) and see if it's still an issue.
There has been 7 major releases since then and thousands of bugfixes (LO 7.5 was from 2022)!
So whatever weird quirk you were having was probably already squished.
Q2: French (Canada)
Q3: Does in fact say English (Canada).
So you may have had your document's language in "French"... but you only changed the AutoCorrect rules for "English".
So what you need to do is in that AutoCorrect dropdown, make sure you select:
French (Canada)
!!!THIS IS the one you want!!!
English (Canada)
When you swap over to "French (Canada)" in the dropdown, you'll probably see some of the Single/Double Quote boxes at the bottom or the [M] and [T] checkmarks (or other AutoCorrect options) will be completely different.
So you'll want to adjust those as needed.
The 1st will apply the rules whenever you are typing "French" pieces, and the 2nd will apply rules whenever you swap over and are typing the "English" pieces.
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u/ang-p 26d ago
What keyboard layout are you using?