How turn off "smart quote" my opensuse 15.6 KDE5?

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hello

this is first time, i never see for “smart quote” my life, so maybe in 2024 is new feature for opensuse 15.6 ?

so my keyboard: US international, my language main is italian…
so i did noted when i typing quote is automatic changed quote…

how i wish to turn off “automatic” or smart quote…

thank you

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Did you check systemsettings? Shortcuts?

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@manuel_songokuh:

Which KDE Application is producing “smart quotes” ?

  • Look closely at the quotes above – they’re typographically correct quotes produced by <AltGr+B> and <AltGr+N> on my German language Cherry CyMotion Linux keyboard.

I’ve now seen that, in LibreOffice Writer, “simple” quotes are automatically changed to typographically correct quotes for my Locale – “de-DE” –

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And no, I haven’t discovered how to turn this off … :smiling_imp:

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That is also my question.

LibreOffice is not even a KDE application.
And it does the “smart quoting” also in openSUSE 15.5.

OTOH, you will see it also in my post which is typed in this forums software. But

in the Computer Text mode, I do not see "smart quoting".

Thus it is complete application dependent and I do not think KDE has a anything to dowith it, let alone has a setting for it.

Again @manuel_songokuh , what is/are the applcation(s)?

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Why on earth the Redmond folks coined the term “Smart Quotes” is beyond the capabilities of my failing grey cells … :imp:

If, I’m writing a document for print or wherever – the Web for example – then, any quotes should be typographically correct …

  • Which is why people such Donald Knuth wrote the {isplaystyle athrm {T_{isplaystyle E}X} } application to provide typographical correctness. The program LaTeX is the easier to use variant.
    Programs such as RUNOFF, nroff, troff and groff also provide this capability.

Therefore, I’m actually pleasantly surprised that, LibreOffice automagically performs this function for typed documents.

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see here screen record: 7.39 MB file on MEGA

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Not everybody likes to open pages on such commercial sites. We have https://paste.opensuse.org/ for posting images or long texts.

But How difficult is it to tell us which applications you use and are doing this “smart quoting” and that didn’t do this earlier in 15.5?

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@manuel_songokuh:

Sorry but, given your screenshot, Kate could be the culprit but, I can’t make it behave as you described – been through all the Kate settings – nothing found …

  • Could it be that, you’ve enabled something like the Kate module for “LaTeX completion”?
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The symbols you are seeing are not “smart whatever”. When you type twice they are graphical accentuation. The same type of graphical mark that you use over letter a, e.g: “onestà”.
I don’t know Italian, but some languages use “ü, é” and many others.

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