Well, in fact Studio HAS a very simple method of replacing all kind of quotes with any other kind of quotes you wish. First, you get typographic quotes when typing them. And for the remaining ones use a simple search and replace operation with regex. For Polish quotes I run two:

(?:“|”|")(\w)
„$1

(\w\b)(?:"|“)
$1”

You can adapt the regexes to your needs. It also will be possible to put all this in one run.

Hello Jerzy,

Thank you for your insights.

Well, the problem is that I don't know anything about Regexes, which means that I don't understand your regexes. As far as I understand, that would allow me to do exactly what I want, namely, to make Studio automatically change all straight quotes in a target text (when the original has curly quotes, I must produce curly quotes in the target text as well). While I know that I can do this by typing quotes, this is impossible to do when the target is automatically generated (because I tell Studio to copy source to target or because I generate some translations automatically. Inevitably, Studio always generates target text with straight quotes, and when there are many to be replaced, doing that manually is an endless work. Someone in the forum suggested, years ago, to use the search and replace tool and search for this: (s)"(.+?)" and replace it with: $1“$2” - this did not work, because Studio told me that no matches were found (untrue - there were) and to be honest, I don't understand all these marks/signs ... what is the meaning of $1????!!! or the dot, or the ? I assume this is a language, but I don't know it.

Hello Jerzy,

Thank you for your insights.

Well, the problem is that I don't know anything about Regexes, which means that I don't understand your regexes. As far as I understand, that would allow me to do exactly what I want, namely, to make Studio automatically change all straight quotes in a target text (when the original has curly quotes, I must produce curly quotes in the target text as well). While I know that I can do this by typing quotes, this is impossible to do when the target is automatically generated (because I tell Studio to copy source to target or because I generate some translations automatically. Inevitably, Studio always generates target text with straight quotes, and when there are many to be replaced, doing that manually is an endless work. Someone in the forum suggested, years ago, to use the search and replace tool and search for this: (s)"(.+?)" and replace it with: $1“$2” - this did not work, because Studio told me that no matches were found (untrue - there were) and to be honest, I don't understand all these marks/signs ... what is the meaning of $1????!!! or the dot, or the ? I assume this is a language, but I don't know it.

It is a regular expressions language. In a nutshell, each character in regex matches itself. So if you search for "a", it will find "a". If you search for "AbbA", it will find what you entered. So far, so logical. To make it really interesting, some characters have special functions. So you can combine literal search for characters with some meta-characters. It is similar to what you would do with wildcards in Word. Such special characters are the dot . which replaces any character. Brackets () are used for grouping and capturing search results. $ signs refer to the group in the search expression—$1 means insert what you have found in the first bracket (first capturing group) in your search expression.

Your expression cannot work, as it looks literally for a letter s followed by a quote. And it just looks for straight quotes, while you need to correct wrong quotes too.

Try this: (\s)(?:„|”|")(.+?)(?:"|“) and replace with $1“$2” 

Make sure regular expressions search is activated.