Disable macOS Smart Quotes feature in whole MAUI app or in BlazorWebView component for macCatalyst/iOS

Question

Is there any way to disable globally Smart Quotes replacing mechanism in MAUI application for iOS/macOS? If not globally, is there maybe any option to disable this behavior per Page/Delegate or something? I tried to search any information, but there is a completely lack of xamarin/maui/dotnet sources on this topic.

I know there is option to disable this in system settings, but I came across Swift code snippets, where similar was achieved by setting related property of text field to something like "SmartQuotesType.No" (maybe it can help to discover right direction: in maui sources I found enum UIKit.UITextSmartQuotesType).

Answer 1

Hello,

SmartQuotesType.No can be set for UIKit.UITextView.SmartQuotesType Property, UIKit.UISearchBar.SmartQuotesType Property, UIKit.UITextField.SmartQuotesType Property and UIKit.UITextDocumentProxy.SmartQuotesType Property, you could try to use handler to find the native control then set this property, refer to the following code: （There is no handler for UITextDocumentProxy in MAUI. If you use UITextDocumentProxy, you can set SmartQuotesType.No for it）

#if MACCATALYST
       Microsoft.Maui.Handlers.EntryHandler.Mapper.AppendToMapping("custom", (handler,view) =>        {            
handler.PlatformView.SmartDashesType = UIKit.UITextSmartDashesType.No;       
 });       
 Microsoft.Maui.Handlers.EditorHandler.Mapper.AppendToMapping("custom", (handler, view) =>        {            
handler.PlatformView.SmartDashesType = UIKit.UITextSmartDashesType.No;        
});        
Microsoft.Maui.Handlers.SearchBarHandler.Mapper.AppendToMapping("custom", (handler, view) =>        {            
handler.PlatformView.SmartDashesType = UIKit.UITextSmartDashesType.No;        
});
#endif

Best Regards,

Wenyan Zhang

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