Typography: Allow overriding replacements

[Haraldson]

What problem are you facing?

In order to support multiple languages and their individual typographic rules, it would be nice to be able to override replacements. Straight double quotes (") to curly double quotes (“) makes sense in English, but in Norwegian I would prefer the straight opening quote to turn into double angle quotes («) instead.

What’s the solution you would like to see?

I tried reading available documentation, then look through the source code, and discovered an existing prop/option named replaceWith. It would be nice if that prop could be sent in using Typography.configure() somehow. Below is a couple of ways this could be achieved:

Typography.configure({
    openDoubleQuote: {
        replaceWith: formatMessage({
            id: 'quote_double_open',
            defaultMessage: '“'
        })
    },
    closeDoubleQuote: formatMessage({
        id: 'quote_double_close',
        defaultMessage: '”'
    })
})

What alternatives did you consider?

I guess I could roll my own extension, but I’d much prefer a Typography extension to be language-aware, since typography is tied to languages and not a global standard.

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[Haraldson]

I still need this.

[bdbch]

Hey @Haraldson! I'll take it into our list of features planned for the future. Thanks for your request.

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