Smart Quotes in German and English

I just upgraded from 10.4 with Office to 10.6 with iWork. So far I've enjoyed iWork. I switch often between writing documents in English and German (usually not switching language within the document) and can't figure out a more efficient way to get the German quote system to work when I type in German. I found the language setting in the Text Inspector in Pages, but when I start typing in German it still uses the English quoting system. Otherwise I have only found the option to set smart quotes as either "English" or „German" in System Preferences, with no more efficient way to toggle between the two. Using the Character Viewer seems like an awkward way to go about solving this problem. What am I missing here?

fruhulda wrote:
Language switcher is an application that can change the language for an application without logout/ login procedure. If it will change the smarts quotes I don't know. Doesn't cost to try-
It's to this app which I thought when I wrote:
+(1) Force Pages to run in German, a task which requires an external tool in 10.6.+
To be honest, I thought also to the script which I wrote (and posted here) to do the trick
But I don't think that it's a soluce to the described problem.
When we want to use two languages in a given document, chaging the language used by the app is not a viable protocol. This is why I think that building a favourite page in the Character palette is a good soluce.
I asked several times Apple to offer a way to define on nthe fly thru a preference dialog the punctuation character which we want to use.
It seems that the feature is available in 10.6.2 but, it doesn't apply to the apps which I use daily.
I assume that the next iWork delivery will be able to take benefit of these new system features.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 15 janvier 2010 21:41:56

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