Bug 38394

Summary: EDITING: Can't insert a French opening quote after an apostrophe using AutoCorrection
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimilan>
Component: WriterAssignee: László Németh <nemeth>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: minor CC: LibreOffice, matthieuvieira, serval2412
Priority: medium    
Version: 3.3.2 release   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
See Also: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57815
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126752
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132301
Whiteboard: target:6.5.0 target:6.4.0.2
Crash report or crash signature: Regression By:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 103341    

Description Milan Bouchet-Valat 2011-06-17 01:52:37 UTC
In French, right quotes " are transformed via AutoCorrection rules to « and » depending on whether the quote appears at the beginning or at the end of a word. This works very well. But it should also be transformed into an opening quote when inserted after an apostrophe.

The reason is, the French defined article (equivalent of "the"), which is "le" or "la", becomes "l'" when the word starts with a vowel. Thus, to say:
> the "alphabet"
we need to write:
> l'« alphabet »

I don't think there's any technical reason for this not to be possible, since inserting a quote after a parenthesis but at the begginning of a word inserts an opening quote (correct). Apostrophes should simply not be considered part of a normal word.

The character for apostrophe can be:
- ' U+0027 APOSTROPHE (default ASCII single quote)
- ’ U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK (when auto replacement is enabled, preferred character anyways)
Comment 1 Björn Michaelsen 2011-12-23 12:26:06 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 2 Milan Bouchet-Valat 2012-06-04 13:39:23 UTC
Confirmed with LibreOffice 3.5.4.2.

Maybe I should be more explicit about the present state of affairs: my bug description says what should happen, but does not describe well what happens now. The problem ATM is that you get:
> l' »alphabet »
instead of
> l'« alphabet »

i.e. the opening quote is not detected correctly, and is added as a closing quote.
Comment 3 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2013-02-18 06:31:08 UTC
Related to "Bug 57815 - Wrong closing » instead of « opening quotation mark behind apostrophe in French language text"
Comment 4 Julien Nabet 2014-05-03 20:39:21 UTC
*** Bug 57815 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Julien Nabet 2014-05-03 20:40:41 UTC
Pb still here on master sources updated yesterday.
Comment 6 QA Administrators 2015-06-08 14:41:57 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 7 Milan Bouchet-Valat 2015-06-08 15:05:11 UTC
Still present in 4.4.3.2.
Comment 8 QA Administrators 2016-09-20 10:01:01 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 9 Milan Bouchet-Valat 2016-09-20 12:49:00 UTC
Still present in 5.2.0.4.
Comment 10 halima 2017-08-22 03:10:11 UTC
Faced same issue on LO Version: 5.4.0.3 (x64)
Build ID: 7556cbc6811c9d992f4064ab9287069087d7f62c
Threads CPU : 4; OS : Windows 6.19;

Also, as Milan Bouchet-Valat mentioned, the opening quote is not detected correctly, the first one is a closing quote instead of the opening quote
Comment 11 QA Administrators 2018-12-07 03:47:32 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete, spam)
Comment 12 Commit Notification 2019-12-29 15:37:32 UTC
László Németh committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/8039c9eb27170a162830f0ecd2086010a7a5858f

tdf#38394 AutoCorrect: fix ’« in French l’« word »

It will be available in 6.5.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 13 Commit Notification 2019-12-31 11:55:31 UTC
László Németh committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "libreoffice-6-4":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/a17eca1559d2dc07b88eeb836f794f43ef7ca0ce

tdf#38394 AutoCorrect: fix ’« in French l’« word »

It will be available in 6.4.0.2.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.