It’s happening on a self-hosted instance I administer (2026.6.0-latest), but not on Meta. In the message field, whenever I type ', it is auto-translated to › or ‹, making it very difficult to write anything. Just like in this topic from 2019. Default Locale is French.

This was fixed in the past few days. It should work on your forum similar to on Meta after you performed an update. [image] Compositeur rempalce les caractère specieux Bug We have since removed the auto-conversion on the rich editor: The conversion may still happen at posting (cooking) time (if quotes are paired, site settings are enabled, and other conditions are met), but it won’t do it while typing anymore.

I have updated to https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commits/122c1444db222f83631849e8b18aa9390e32d371 and the bug remains.

The version you linked is two weeks old. I don’t expect that to include a fix added this week

Apostrophe translated to quotation mark in message field

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Moin June 11, 2026, 3:14pm 2

This was fixed in the past few days. It should work on your forum similar to on Meta after you performed an update.

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