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Apostrophe character not rendering properly (san-serif not serif)
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Hello, wondering if anyone has any insight into this problem. I've tried 2.x and 3.x Gimp.

See attached image, hopefully it'll still be here. On the left are common fonts, e.g. Baskerville, times new roman, etc. rendered in Microsoft Office and showing the correct apostrophe. On the right is how Gimp is rendering them. I know fonts have many forms of apostrophes (e.g. left, right, etc), but I cannot find any way for it to render apostrophes correctly. Any idea on how to fix them?

Note, this isn't unique to Gimp as I've found a few programs that also don't work so I'm imagining it's the font renderer mis-interpreting the glyphs properly?

If the image disappears it's basically the fonts have curved top heavy apostrophes (like a comma), i.e. with serifs, but in Gimp it is rendering them all as sans-serif versions.
[Image: fonts.png]
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#2
What you are looking for are smart quotes  - but Gimp is not a word processor so what you get is the keyboard apostrophe. On my UK keyboard it is with @.

Gimp should be able to include unicode in the text tool, shift-ctrl-u + a character code.

Unfortunately in Windows Gimp 3.0 this is broken - a right click setting in the text box area.  Missing in Gimp 3.0

   

For the sake of an example, This is Gimp 2.10   https://i.imgur.com/ZOwqfsv.mp4

At the moment, if you want to use smart quotes, find in a character map, then copy / paste.
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#3
Looks like there is no fix for Windows / Gimp 3.0 see: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/issues/14212

What is possible is the old ASCII character entry method using the computer keypad (make sure numlock is on)

and it looks like this for quotes, do a search for other frequently used and remembered symbols (otherwise use a character map)

   
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