When changing the start and end characters for single or double quotes, one has to painstakingly search the Unicode space for the opening character, then search all over again for the closing one - in another dialog for the closing character. This is of course possible - but inconvenient. It should be improved in at least one of the following ways: 1. When "manually" setting an opening quote, and provided the closing quote was not set manually, have it switch to the matching closing quote - if one can be determined. 2. The character search sub-dialog should more readily offer quote-ish characters (e.g. by some kind of grouping to view by default before the other Unicode character ranges).
The default for German is double quotes being converted to „Lorem ipsum“. I don't have to do anything, the autocorrection works perfectly. Please elaborate with an example.
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #1) > The default for German is double quotes being converted to „Lorem ipsum“. I > don't have to do anything, the autocorrection works perfectly. Please > elaborate with an example. I meant, when you want to use something _other_ than the default. This bug is about the UX for doing that.
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As commented on the duplicate bug 153987 comment 2 it works out of the box, which is unclear why.
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #4) > As commented on the duplicate bug 153987 comment 2 it works out of the box, > which is unclear why. Heiko, I can't make sense of your statement, as this bug is about what happens when _changing_ the out-of-the-box behavior. If you're saying that there is never any need to change the out-of-the-box behavior, then, well - if the UI for changing the quote chars is removed, this bug will become invalid; but while that UI exists, this bug is relevant.
The topic was on the agenda of the design meeting but did not receive further input. The (special) character dialog allows to search for unicode names. It should be easy to find the ending quotes in the filtered list. Any "intelligent" function is over-engineering and not needed.