Inverted commas or quotation marks

[Nebulosa]

Before Publisher 1.8.4, inverted commas or quotation marks were the 'curly' type, and now they are straight. For double inverted commas you have to use (alt + ") on your keyboard to open quote, and then (alt + cap arrow + ") to close quote. However, for the single quotation mark it's always straight.

I know this isn't a major problem, but with previous versions (until recently I used 1.7.3) I didn't have this problem. 

This same question was asked last year, and nobody from Affinity has yet given an answer. Why did it work fine before, and doesn't work anymore since 1.8? Is there any way of doing this? I publish a magazine, and having to change this one at a time is daunting. Can anyone from Affinity reply, please?

[Nebulosa]

Replying to my own question, you can change this under text/insert/quotation marks/single or double quote, but it still has to be done one at a time. Any way we can add this to the preferences?

[walt.farrell]

Have you checked your Auto-Correct Preferences in Publisher to make sure they're still set correctly?

[Nebulosa]

Thanks, that was it! I upgraded recently from 1.7.3 to 1.8.4 and it changed everything, even the language. I had it set to UK English as a norm, and when upgrading it didn't recongnise the UK English and kept changing all the spelling over to US English. I had to change everything back to English UK in Character Language (before it was all set automatically to UK English, and you had to change it if you wanted to use another language). Anyway, it works now! Many thanks! Case closed!

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, Nebulosa said:

before it was all set automatically to UK English, and you had to change it if you wanted to use another language

Glad to have helped

For the default language: it should be set from the User Interface language in your Preferences (General tab?). Perhaps that got reset, too.