Josephine Dedhar

I'm not certain, if that helps, but you can check this setting in your project settings (and use it in the future for project templates). Please note, that changing this in File -> Options will NOT influence any of your current projects. It will work only for new projects, started with your default template (including translation of single documents).

Otherwise, a major software like Microsoft Word does not enter such spaces either, so I wouldn't expect Studio to do. In the end of the day it is a character you have to enter like letters and spaces. So simply press CTRL+SHIFT+SPACE to have what you need. I do not see a major difference between writing in Word and having to do that and when typing in Studio. You can also enter a simple space and run a search & replace for this afterwards.

So or so - TBH I do not see this to be a big deal, as you must enter a character there anyway.

Josephine Dedhar

I'm not certain, if that helps, but you can check this setting in your project settings (and use it in the future for project templates). Please note, that changing this in File -> Options will NOT influence any of your current projects. It will work only for new projects, started with your default template (including translation of single documents).

Otherwise, a major software like Microsoft Word does not enter such spaces either, so I wouldn't expect Studio to do. In the end of the day it is a character you have to enter like letters and spaces. So simply press CTRL+SHIFT+SPACE to have what you need. I do not see a major difference between writing in Word and having to do that and when typing in Studio. You can also enter a simple space and run a search & replace for this afterwards.

So or so - TBH I do not see this to be a big deal, as you must enter a character there anyway.

Josephine Dedhar 

I had a little play with this and can confirm that by default Word does this as you have stated (I had no idea... but very cool); memoQ does not do this and neither does Studio.  Wordfast Classic does, but that would be because you are translating in Word.

However, you could use AutoHotkey for this.  Maybe something like this:

;------------------------------------------------------------------------------
; French spaces
;------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#IfWinActive SDL Trados Studio
:?*:!::{ASC 0160}{!}
:?*:`?::{ASC 0160}{?}
:?*:`;::{ASC 0160}{;}
:?*:`: ::{ASC 0160}{:}
:?*:»::{ASC 0160}{»}
:?*:«::{«}{ASC 0160}
Return
#IfWinActive

The advantage being this could be used for any application, although I set this script to work only in Studio with the WinActive command.

Just in case that anybody comes across this script, you need to remove 'SDL' from the first string to read as #IfWinActive Trados Studio to make it work.