Autocorrect for non breaking spaces before question mark not applied to fr-CA

[Benoit St-André]

Binary package hint: libreoffice

In LibreOffice on Natty 11.04, non breaking spaces before punctuation mark are not applied in fr-CA locale.

When I check in Format -> Autocorrect -> AutoCorrect options, there is a localized option tab with "Add non breaking spaces before specific punctuation marks in french text". Thing is, it does not apply on question marks, it evens remove any space between a word and the question mark automatically (which is the English language use of this rule).

I think it's because there is no existing autocorrect.dat for fr-CA in /usr/lib/libreoffice/basis3.3/share/autocorr/ (there is only a acor_fr-FR.dat). Nevertheless, other rules seem to apply (like replacing " " quotes for « » which works in French (Canada)).

It seems really to be a problem with the CA part, because if I turn the entire document in French (France) (fr-FR), then the autocorrect rule applies for question marks and works fine.

To be sure, I also tested with a brand new guest session on my machine so that no .libreoffice of mine would be on the way, and I get the exact same behaviour.

I can do more testing if needed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: libreoffice 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri May 6 14:05:39 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fr:en
 LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-03 (2 days ago)

[Benoit St-André (benoit-st-andre)]

Screenshot of the Autocorrect dialog, might help.

[Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab)]

I was able to reproduce this using this command:
LANG=fr_CA.utf8 lowriter

Try typing "Pardon ?", the space is always removed.

Typing the same after invoking LibO using the fr_FR locale works as expected:
LANG=fr_FR.utf8 lowriter

As a workaround, LibreOffice can be invoked in the fr_FR locale as shown, or you can login using that locale (at the login screen).

[Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab)]

To find out your current locale, from command line:
echo $LANG

[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

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