How can I set Trados 2019 to insert non-breaking spaces before punctuation in French automatically?

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I normally translate into English but I have an EN-FR document to translate at the moment that contains a lot of quotation marks, colons and semi-colons, and I've found that although Trados automatically uses French speech marks &laquo;&raquo; when I type ", it doesn't add the non-breaking space after/before. It also doesn't insert a non-breaking space before exclamation or question marks, colons or semi-colons. Surely there's setting somewhere for this that I've missed? It seems quite fundamental for French TL translators so I can't believe that Trados is incapable of doing it. The fact that there is "French-compliant check" option in the QA settings and that the &laquo; &raquo; button in the QuickInsert menu includes non-breaking spaces implies that SDL knows that French requires spaces before certain punctuation marks so why do I have to add them in manually?

Jerzy Czopik · Answer

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.

Paul · Answer

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}{:} :?*:&raquo;::{ASC 0160}{&raquo;} :?*:&laquo;::{&laquo;}{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.

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How can I set Trados 2019 to insert non-breaking spaces before punctuation in French automatically?