I always enable the apostrophe automatic replacement whenever I install LibreOffice for a friend. The standard ASCII apostrophe ' looks ugly and IMHO really hurts the otherwise great look of LO-produced documents. The replacement of straight apostrophes to ’ (U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK) works well and fixes the issue. So why not enable it by default? I asked in the old OpenOffice times, and I was said per-language options was needed first. Now that this has landed, I think the problem can be solved. I don't know whether this makes sense for all languages, but definitely for all Western ones, which is already a big share of users. Local communities can then be asked for other languages (if they care at all - maybe that doesn't make any sense for them).
Not a default => changed in enhancement. Best regards. JBF
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enhancement => set to new. Best regards. JBF
I think most people would want this made default. Otherwise, the new user perceives that LibO is not as smart as other word processors. This can lower their esteem for LibO, which is a shame since LibO actually has the ability. The few who prefer simple/ordination quote marks would probably know that there's a way to disable it. So, I support the implementation.
I also agree.
I too think this should be enabled by default. It's inconsistent to convert double quotes by default but not single quotes. (And perhaps counterintuitive for users in British Commonwealth countries who use single quotes rather than double quotes as standard.)
*** Bug 74855 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Given window-orphan control was enabled by default in LibreOffice 5.1 to be consistent with MS Word, perhaps this change could be considered as well?
László Németh committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=e6fade1ce133039d28369751b77ac8faff6e40cb tdf#38395 enable smart apostrophe replacement by default It will be available in 5.1.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Fixed in commit e6fade1ce133039d28369751b77ac8faff6e40cb tdf#38395 enable smart apostrophe replacement by default Unicode apostrophe is mandatory for French, English, etc. typography, and it is a default option in all modern word processors. The fix enables single quote AutoCorrect replacement for all languages.
*** Bug 92850 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Hurray! Thanks László, this is a great day for LibreOffice!
As always there can be unintended consequences to global changes across the modules... see bug 99930