anweid Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 The German Affinity Publisher 1.7.3.481 for Windows, when used in conjunction with German language text, behaves as follows when using auto-correction: When the option Capitalise the first character of sentences is switched on, the character combinations 'fr.', 'sa.' and 'so.' are capitalised anywhere in the sentence (into 'Fr.', 'Sa.' and 'So.'). The first two are not so problematic, because words like that don't exist in German, but the latter is a valid word that can end a sentence. E.g., the correct sentence 'Das ist so.' (which translates into 'That's so.') is auto-corrected into 'Das ist So.', which is not correct. It might be that this is due to the above three combinations being abbreviations of some German days of the week, but the others ('Mo.', 'Di.', 'Mi.' and 'Do.') do not behave that way. When the option Capitalise the first character of sentences is switched on, the character combination 'apostrophe + lower-case s + dot' ('s.) is auto-corrected into 'apostrophe + upper-case s + dot' ('S.). Independent of the fact that this combination is very rare in German (as opposed to English), the auto-corrected result is never used in German. When switching to British English, no correction is done (which is wonderful and should also be the case for German). Both of the above corrections are wrong, anyway, but they also do their corrections at a place that is not the first character of any sentence, which seems to be additionally out of place here. Andreas Weidner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Pauls Posted October 30, 2019 Staff Share Posted October 30, 2019 I think these are down to the default German abbreviations list has So. and S. are defined which is causing the problem I believe. Maybe we should reduce the default list Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anweid Posted October 31, 2019 Author Share Posted October 31, 2019 Well... Of course you could reduce the abbreviations list, but that would still leave the bug that some character combinations might be capitalised that do not appear at the beginning of sentences. The above auto-correction should only capitalise words that really do appear at the beginning of a sentence, but not elsewhere. Andreas Weidner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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