Am Dingsdag 05 Februor 2008 schrieb Martin Sevior:
> Ah yes this is could be a solution. You can interrogate the character
> property "LANG" with
>
> getView()->getCharFormat(const gchar *** props, true)
>
> at the current point. If the language is one like English where standard
> curly quotes are employed, use the algorithm. In time maybe someone else
> will implement the below base-line curly quotes for those languages that
> need them.
>
> I agree that curly quotes for English is better than no smart quotes as
> long as it works.
>
> For me the show-stopper is the undo/redo behaviour.
At least for German, this is absolutely no problem. Just replace “ with „
(opening quote) and ” with “ (closing quote). (But there are also »« used)
The same is for other languages. It’s all on Wikipedia.
Doing it via the locale is not a good idea. After all, I would like to write
some English texts on my German machine, as well ;)
Gerrit Sangel
Received on Wed Feb 6 21:11:40 2008
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