Bug 126387

Summary:	Unsymmetrical fonts for quotation marks in mixed western and Asian text
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Liaison to zh-CN User Community <plateauwolf>
Component:	Writer	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	himajin100000
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.1.6.3 release
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Liaison to zh-CN User Community 2019-07-14 11:26:18 UTC

LO Writer allows the user to specify different fonts for western and Asian text within a single style.  This is a very useful feature, but for some charaters that are used in both western and Asian text, it causes some undesired effects.

This bug is about the curly quotation marks, which are used frequently in both English and Chinese texts.  Currently Writer seems to choose fonts by a simple rule - the quotation mark just uses the font of the text it follows.  So obviously in pure English text, the quotation marks use the Western font; while in pure Chinese text they use Asian font.

For mixed English-and-Chinese text, however, this simple rule produces some ugly results.  In text like 中文“English”中文 the opening quotation mark uses Chinese font, and the closing one uses Western font.  On the other hand, in text like English“中文”English, the opening quotation mark uses Western font and the closing one uses Chinese font.

I'm not sure what the best result is, but the current unsymmetrical result is probably the least desired one.  It would be nice if there is an option for this, but I'll settle for any symmetrical solution.

I reproduced this bug in LO 6.1.6 on Windows 10, but it's quite independent on versions and platforms, and has been reproduced by others on LO 6.1.5/6.2.3/6.3.0 RC1 on Linux.

Comment 1 Liaison to zh-CN User Community 2019-07-14 11:29:18 UTC

This is a report forwarded from a Chinese LO user forum.  The original discussion thread (in Chinese) is
https://bbs.libreofficechina.org/thread-2301-1-1.html

Comment 2 Volga 2019-07-15 11:21:03 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 66791 ***

Comment 3 Felicia Medina 2021-11-19 11:05:37 UTC Comment hidden (spam)

The use of different fonts for quotation marks is not an option that most people think about, but can be quite important when creating a document with mixed western and Asian text. The standard practice in the English speaking world is to use "double https://www.superiorpapers.com/lab-report-writing-service.php quotes" (") on both sides of a quote. In East Asia, however, the convention is often to put double quotes inside single quotes (‘). This might seem like it would create confusion if you are quoted by someone from an East Asian country or vice versa, but there are actually very few cases where this could happen.