StephanP Posted June 14, 2020 Posted June 14, 2020 I can't seem to get the right typographic quotes conversion. In Preferences - Auto-Correct, I've enabled the options "Change straight quotes into typographic quotes" as well as "Support language depend single quotes ..." I've set spelling checking to Dutch, which I installed manually and is functional. When I type straight 'single quotes' or "double quotes" I expect these to be converted into typographic ‘single quotes’ or “double quotes”, respectfully. Yet, somehow I get German style typographic ‚single quotes’ and „double quotes” with base opening quotes. I've made a small experiment extending the nl_NL.aff with two mappings, but that didn't work either. It seems to me that the typographic quotes conversion is hard-coded to produce German style base opening quotes. Is this a bug? Relevant specs: Windows 10 (1909) (Dutch language) AP 1.8.3.641 Quote
StephanP Posted June 14, 2020 Author Posted June 14, 2020 A sample file to go with this Typographic quotes example.afpub Quote
StephanP Posted June 15, 2020 Author Posted June 15, 2020 Bump. I'd be interested to learn if this some odd behaviour of Affinity Publisher when it's installed on a Dutch Windows 10 system, or if it's something that can be cured in a simple manner. Quote
walt.farrell Posted June 15, 2020 Posted June 15, 2020 It seems to happen whenever the spelling language is set to Dutch and the Autocorrect options are set to use typographic quotes. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.4
StephanP Posted June 15, 2020 Author Posted June 15, 2020 No, the Dutch language spelling checking and Dutch character style settings are not related to this issue. Before I installed the Dutch dictionaries, all my preferences were default English and I got the same German style typographic quotes. I suspect it has to do with AP on Dutch language Windows system. Quote
Alfred Posted June 15, 2020 Posted June 15, 2020 1 minute ago, StephanP said: German style typographic quotes Just as a point of information, German-style quotes are like „this“ rather than „this” (i.e. the closing quotation mark looks like 66, not 99). Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
walt.farrell Posted June 15, 2020 Posted June 15, 2020 4 hours ago, StephanP said: I suspect it has to do with AP on Dutch language Windows system. Definitely not that, as my system is US English. But if I start a new document and specify Dutch for a block of text, I get the quotes you show. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.4
StephanP Posted June 16, 2020 Author Posted June 16, 2020 Ok, I did some further testing and it's in the character style language alright. Not in the spelling checking. Apologies for the confusion. So, this seems to boil down to a Change request: Could the Dutch character style be changed such that it converts quotes into English typographic quotes, because that's how they're supposed to be. Quote
Staff Gabe Posted July 2, 2020 Staff Posted July 2, 2020 Hi all, Sorry for the delated reply. Issue logged. StephanP 1 Quote
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