smart quotes WRONG/unavailable

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(11-27-2022, 03:41 PM)mcsugarfree Wrote: Hi there,

I'm using a font I bought and installed in GIMP 2.10. Generally it's working fine, EXCEPT only "closing" smart quotes are displayed. At the beginning of each set of smart quotes in the text, the smart quotes point in the wrong direction! I checked the font library and the correct smart quotes are def. included in the font, it's just that GIMP doesn't seem to see them or something. See pic below. Halp?

Thanks!

There are no "smart quotes". "Smartness" is in the word processor that replaces your keyboard plain double quotes (actually a "QUOTATION MARK" in the Unicode description) (ASCII 0x22, U+0022) by the adequate character (in French these are replaced by "guillemets": «»)(*). Unicode defines:

• "LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK" (U+201C): >“< 
  
• "RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARKS" (U+202C): >”<
  

If you enter them as such in Gimp (for instance, copy/paste the character above) they should work (text in Gimp is Unicode), which is how I generated this image:

   

PS: same thing  for single quotes: your keyboard "APOSTROPHE" (ASCII 0x27, U+0027) is replaced by one of "LEFT/RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK" (U+2018, U+2019): >‘<,>’<


(*) Limited smartness, as you find out when you are writing slides for a programming language course....