Spanish keyboard maping issue

[Manel Sifre]

Hello,

Spanish keyboard, the key at the right of the 0, over P; it is supposed to be an apostrophe but instead gives ». This behaviour only happens within Affinity Publisher, not in Libreoffice, for example.

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, @Manel Sifre.

In Publisher, the handling of the apostrophe is controlled by the spelling language you have set for the text, and by this Auto-Correct Preference:

Perhaps adjusting those will resolve your issue.

[garrettm30]

@walt.farrell What you said is exactly the answer needed, except that the last item you highlighted in the screenshot (the dropdown currently showing "English (United States)") will not affect this issue, unless Manel had defined a specific replacement for the language of the text, which I think seems unlikely.

There appears to be confusion about what that dropdown does, so a little clarification is in order for the sake of others who are new (though you, Walt, may well already understand all this). What you select in that dropdown does not change the language settings of the app at all. Put another way, that dropdown is not itself a setting. Rather, it relates to what appears below it. You can have a different set of replacements for each language, and the dropdown is the means by which you pick which set of replacements you would be editing.

So, for example, if you set the dropdown to "None," it is not that you are turning auto correct off. Rather, it allows you to add auto-correction replacements to any texts whose language is set to "none."

This is the official documentation of the process from the manual:

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To add custom misspellings to the replacements list:

1. From the Preferences Auto-Correct tab, set the Language pop-up menu to set language-specific replacements.
2. Enter your custom replacement using the Replace and With boxes—this is the word to be replaced automatically as you type and the text to be automatically inserted in place of the word in the Replace field.
3. Click Add to add the new entry to the list.