https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157170
--- Comment #20 from Stéphane Guillou (stragu) <[email protected]> --- (In reply to sophie from comment #18) > I would vote for the first one because guillemets is not an English word so > it would become easier in our francophone world but not for other > translators. Happy to stick to the original for least surprise, but "guillemets" seems to be a term accepted, if not dominant, in English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillemet See: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=guillemet_INF%2Cangle+quote_INF&year_start=1900&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3 (In reply to Jack from comment #19) > In all cases, these < and > on a keyboard are symbols meaning "less than" or > "greater than" and in no case inverted commas. If they are used for inverted > commas, that's not their basic role! > > let's call a spade a spade ! Agreed, and looking more into I realise that there actually is a distinction between three groups of characters here: angle brackets, less-than/greater-than, and single guillemets. A good illustration here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket#Shape You are right that our autocorrect rule concerns the middle one and we should be explicite about it. In Unicode: - U+003C < LESS-THAN SIGN (<, <) - U+003E > GREATER-THAN SIGN (>, >) So my suggested source string is now: "Replace double less- or greater-than signs (<< and >>) with angle quotes (« and »)" Longer but clearer. Like Julien, I recommend avoiding having "+" in there as I think it could confuse further. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
