If anyone can help me, I'd appreciate it! It didn't do it here in the subject line of this post, strangely, but it always does in Mac Mail and Notes (not MS Word). I am using Canadian English keyboard; OS10.15.7 (Catalina). Thanks for your help!
MacBook Pro with Touch Bar
Ah!
Writing in different languages I deal with that stuff on a daily basis.
This can be in both System and Application Preferences.
In System Preferences look under Keyboard > Text > Smart Quotes settings.
WD
Thank you! It worked. Do you know if it is possible to set the system to use the different quotes by language? Ex. “” when I use the English keyboard and the zfrench quotes when I change to the French keyboard? It seems to be a master all-keyboard setting, and like you I often write in other languages. Thank you!
I mostly just switch keyboards in conjonction with the macOS virtual keyboard. Writing in French is more than just about quotes for example. Dictionary and spelling correction are bigger issues in my opinion.
I'm kind of old school. I deactivate all "smart" features. I remember typing in French on an American QWERTY physical keyboard configured as "Canadian French" decades ago. You know, fingers memory? This was well before Unicode. Now if you introduce Greek, Cyrillic and Far East...
This can become a complex thing. Just think about printing and system portability. Even just in Canada there are more than one standard keyboard layout for both English and French!
For casual communications within Canada using "English" quotes is not a big issue. Working for government is another story 😉.
Hope that helps,
WD
English quotation marks (" ") keep changing to French ones (« ») – using Canadian English keyboard
