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Hi, There's errors in the option to automatically replace quotes in French. We only use as double quote "«" and "»". This means to replace "a" by « a »with non-breaking spaces between the quotes and the character: moderatly smaller non-breaking spaces with fixed width or simple non-breaking spaces depending of school If we need quotes in quotes, there're again 2 schools: « Same double quotes « in quotes » that can be confusing » « Or using English “curly quotes and why not, but it's uncommon, ‘single quotes’ in quotes” in quotes » Last one, we use a lot of apostrophes between characters, c’est la vie ! The automatically replace quotes setting is unusable for now in French, since it's replacing single quotes and apostrophes by › or ‹. We never use those. Wikipedia is wrong, and we can't see any mention of those ‹› in Lexique des règles typographiques en usage à l'Imprimerie nationale that is a one of the reference books about orthotypographie… There's a mention ( « guillemets simples » ?… Les ‹ chevrons › ?) at the bottom of this page, but it's ironic. And if you want more proofs, search "›" or "‹" in Google: you'll have smileys, unicode char list, japanese pages, etc. but no French web pages as results .