Opened 6 years ago
Closed 6 years ago
#47220 closed enhancement (worksforme)
German Apostrophes (Enhancement suggestion)
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Description
Hello dear developers,
I appreciate WordPress very much but I have a burning question: When I write a quote in my blog under German language profile, I get an English apostrophe, like this one -> ["]. German quote structure is very different. It starts with a low apostrophe, like this -> [„] and the quote ends with a high apostrophe, which seems to look the same, but it's not, it is also bended but the other way around than the English apostrophe -> [“]. Would it be possible to include these special punctuation marks within the Germanic WordPress core language files so it automatically converts it or is by design a plugin needed?
Thank you for your time.
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- Component changed from I18N to Formatting
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WordPress already does this sort of formatting with the help of wptexturize(). The quotes are also translated in German.
Hi @ibkarpowski, thanks for the ticket and welcome to WordPress Trac,
We have the same kind of issue in French with our own typographic quotes
« … ».However, this "issue" should not be solved on WordPress Core but with your own localized keyboard. For example, on MacOSX in French we are using ALT+7 or ALT+SHIFT+7 shortcuts to get opening and closing french quotes.
Cheers,
Jb