Problem with quotation marks in French blog

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    stsurvivor · Member ·

    Hi !

    I first posted on the French blog but I was asked to post again here. My problem is that the usual English quotation marks ” are supposed to be changed into French quotations marks looking like this << and >>. But I have noticed that sometimes my quotation marks keep opening instead of closing and that made me almost crazy. Does it happen when I put English words between quotation marks ?

    Not sure my message is clear so here is a short example : for instance when writing “oldschool”, it should appear in the blog as << oldschool >> but often it looks like << oldschool <<.

    I managed to close the quotations marks but had to try several things :
    * copied/pasted a working closing quotation mark
    * turned to text mode and removed my quotation marks, then retyped them out of span limits.

    Hope someone understand what I mean :) Thank you !

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    siobhyb · Member ·

    Hi there!

    After a bit of testing, I was able to replicate the issue. The French quotation marks don’t close correctly at times where both the following are true:

    * The words in between the quotation marks are formatted e.g. they’re bold, underlined, or italicised.

    * The quotation mark is the last one on the post/page.

    I’ve reported this back to our internationalisation team so that they’re aware of the issue.

    In the meantime, you get around this tricky bug by including the quotation marks when formatting the words in between them e.g. make the quotation marks bold in addition to the quoted words.

    Please let me know if you’re encountering this issue at any other times also or if any of the above needs clarifying. I’ll be happy to help further.

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    siobhyb · Member ·

    Hi there!

    Following up from this, we did some further testing and found that this issue was reproducible for quotation marks in all languages. It seems to be a bug in the core WordPress software. As WordPress is open source, you can follow along with progress on a fix in the public bug report:
    https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/31931

    Let me know if there’s anything else I can help out with in the meantime. :)

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    stsurvivor · Member ·

    Hi there !

    Sorry I didn’t reply earlier ! Thank you for the explanation tho I’m a bit sorry to hear there is no solution at the moment. I met this bug again earlier today and ended with removing all formatting so that the quotation marks would close properly (or as you said I could have put the quotation marks with the same format ie color and bold).

    What I don’t get is that in my article (not posted yet, draft atm) is that the quotation marks worked properly the first time, then didn’t work on the second try… I cannot see any logic in this :/

    Anyway thanks a lot for your help and support ! I’m a newbie at WordPress but every question I asked found an early answer and I’m grateful for this !

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    siobhyb · Member ·

    It’s a tricky bug, for sure. I’m sorry that we can’t get a fix to you faster! If you want, you can CC yourself in on the following ticket to get emailed when this bug’s discussed by WordPress Core developers:
    https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/31931

    I’m glad that you’ve been enjoying WordPress so far! We’re right here for you if any other questions come up. :)

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