[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 128860] Incorrect autocorrection of apostrophes in German text

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128860

--- Comment #7 from Rob Schroeder <rs at rsems.dev> ---
> And exactly which Unicode glyph would be the "typographic apostrophe symbol" 
> that would be "correct"--and for which locale?

This has already been answered by the Unicode consortium, independent of
locale. Originally, U+02BC 'MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE' was considered as the
preferred character for a punctuation apostrophe, but since Unicode v.3.0.0 the
U+2019 'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK' is considered as the preferred character -
see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modifier_letter_apostrophe.

> Can't do it now

You already do, in en_?? locales. 

I repeat, the above is what LibreOffice already does in en_?? locales when an
apostrophe is typed inside a word, i.e. with no delimiter character following
it (if the user didn't specify and enable custom single quote characters, and
this limitation is actually a bug, too, while I guess developers wanted to keep
it like that as long as there is no option to specify and enable a custom
'apostrophe' character, too, which then would be used in place of U+2019).

Now my report is about de_DE, where basically the same rules apply except for
some differences in the default characters for 'single quotes', and here
LibreOffice doesn't do it - it uses U+2018 'LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK' when an
apostrophe is typed inside a word, which is always wrong. Which is why this is
a bug.

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