Louis LaBonté 

I have to confess I've never been aware of this behaviour at all out of the box.  So I tested it in 2019, 2021 and 2022 with exactly the same result in each one:

Perhaps you can check how this was being used before and whether the users might have been working with a script of some sort.  If they use AutoHotkey for example there might have been a line like tis:

#IfWinActive SDL Trados Studio

Which might not work any more since you'd probably need this for 2022:

#IfWinActive Trados Studio

Worth checking anyway.

I can assure you none of the users who complained used AutoHotkey, since we can not install any additional software on our government computers, unless specifically authorized (and I know for a fact that AutoHotkey would not be approved by the IT Security team).

In your tests, did you try English to French as a language combination?

Here's something that might be worth testing in that language combination, in Trados Studio 2021, then in 2022:

     [EN to be used as source]
          There's one apostrophe case here, and "this is in quotation marks."

     [FR for copy-pasting in the target, to be followed by the typing of a regular space at the end of the target segment]
          Il y a un cas d'apostrophe ici, et "ceci est entre guillemets".

In the French target segment, after copy-pasting AND manually adding a regular space at the end of the segment, the end result should have been this in Trados Studio 2021:
          Il y a un cas d’apostrophe ici, et « ceci est entre guillemets ». 

Thanks in advance for the test! :-) 

Louis LaBonté Michèle Legault 

ok - I switched to a French UI, created an en(US) - fr(CA) project and used these settings in Trados Studio 2021:

And this is what I get:

Alison Field is this a feature you use and could reproduce in older versions?

Just to make sure: I don't see why it would make a difference, but is it the same if you try with en(CA) - fr(CA)?

 Louis LaBonté 

Louis LaBonté said:

but is it the same if you try with en(CA) - fr(CA)?

The same and almost worse... sometimes it doesn't autocorrect at all.  I'll ask the support team to look at this because so far I cannot find anyone else who can reproduce it. I like the feature... didn't even know it existed!  So it would be good to figure out why this is working for you and not anyone else I've asked so far.

It might be worth finding a French operating system... not sure yet.

It's a great feature. Correct's it if somehow you type a straight one and, best of all, we could copy whole paragraphs off websites, reports and other docs that used stright apostrophe's, paste them in Studio, tap on spacebar and magic happened. Replaced everything correctly.

Hi Paul 

It isn't a feature I've ever used. I work with text from French or German to English usually and I prefer straight quotes unless the client stipulates otherwise, in which case I change the setting under Options so that my quotes are automatically generated as smart as I type each one.

I'm very interested this is even possible and I wonder if it is a feature of the Microsoft Office version of a fully bilingual country that has till now happened to be adopted by Studio. Perhaps a change in programming has inadvertently broken the link that made this happen?

Have a super weekend,

Ali

Thanks Alison Field ... quite possibly.  It's always interesting the unexpected things that pop up with each release!

ENGLISH_ca to FRENCH_ca
What I'm still looking for is a way to copy a chain of characters (a paragraph) from the web into the target window, accept the translation, and then all the straight apostrophes would change into curly apostrophes.
Is this possible?  Thanks to Paul, Louis, Michèle and Alison for your contributions!

Louis LaBonté Paul Michèle Legault Claude Brindamour 

Just adding links to everyone who was involved in this conversation because you may be unlikely to see this otherwise

Claude, this question is beyond my knowledge ...

All the best,

Ali

Claude Brindamour 

Better to have created a new thread as this gets lost in here.

Most likely something you can do with Autohotkey to ensure you past a curly apostrophe in the first place, or a search & replace across the project afterwards.

You're right, Paul. This was an old one. When I use search and replace in Studio 2021, the curly does not appear in the replace box. The correct apostrophe appears when I type in directly in the target, though. So, it is a problem with the text I find on the Web. I'll check that out with AutoHotkey. Thank you for your kind help!

You're right, Paul. This was an old one. When I use search and replace in Studio 2021, the curly does not appear in the replace box. The correct apostrophe appears when I type in directly in the target, though. So, it is a problem with the text I find on the Web. I'll check that out with AutoHotkey. Thank you for your kind help!