234800 - use of language-specific quotation marks while writing mail

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Internationalization, enhancement)

Description

[Nils Winter]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

It would bei great, if mozilla mail would handle quotation marks like OpenOffice
or Word etc.
Now, wenn i want to write something between quotation marks the result will be
"Some text". Applications like OpenOffice change " while typing into „ or
“(German style) so the final result is „Some Text“.
I think that "Some text" is not correct in the english language too. As far as i
know “Some Text” would be the preferred way.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[César]

Attachment: This is the actual Firefox behaviour

Comment 2

[César]

Attachment: This is the expected Firefox behaviour

Comment 3

[Jungshik Shin]

To support this, we also need to identify the language of an email being
composed. There are some sources from which we can 'infer' the language and that
might be sufficient as the 0th order approximation. Eventually, we need to let
users choose 'language'  

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

Confirming RFE.

Comment 6

[Rimas Kudelis [use needinfo to ping]]

I've created a separate bug for Firefox. See Bug #370932.

Jshin, for Thunderbird, we could guess the language from:
1) spelling dictionary in use (when spelling is on);
2) from the localization of thunderbird.

Comment 7

[Rimas Kudelis [use needinfo to ping]]

Hmm.. Actual bug for Firefox appears to be bug #16206.