Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Adding items to Autocorrection file

2015-12-20 15:03 GMT+02:00 Michael Bauer <fios@akerbeltz.org>:

> On the issue of autocorrection, I have a different question. I'm trying to
> alter the behaviour of smart single quotes in LO. In Gaelic, single quotes
> are almost never used as punctuation because their main function is as word
> characters e.g.
> a' d' t' etc
> and because this would land you with 'a'' when using single quotes, this
> is almost never done and people uses double quotes mostly "a'"
>
> Problem arise when automatically turning these into smart quotes. Not the
> double, “” are always fine but turning ' > ’ creates problems because this
> is interpreted by LO (not just LO, most use the default "English" settings)
> as an opening single quote and turns this into a right curling quote ‘
>
> Unfortunately, this single quote can occur at the beginning of words too
> e.g.
> 'gam 'gad 'ga
> but when using formatted quotes, this must be a LEFT curling quote i.e.
> ’gam ’gad
> but with the default behaviour, one ends up with
> ‘gam ‘gad
>
> I guess this is a bit like the 'okina issue in Hawaiian, though I'm not
> sure if this has been fixed in LO.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas how this could be fixed so
> - the default smart quote conversion is always to left curling for gd-GB
> (unless the user manually inserts a right curling quote via the character
> chart or ALT+0145)
> - this does not end up as a conflict between autocorrect and some system
> setting

Hi Michael,

Not sure if you have already figured this out, but if not, then here's a
pointer:
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=51fc602184ab8d1afbfb183a3d25b1122c8b1e29

Best regards,
Mihkel

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