UI: make text between quotes colored in chat mode

modules/html_generator.py

@@ -42,6 +42,29 @@ def fix_newlines(string):
     return string
 
 
+def replace_quotes(text):
+
+    # Define a list of quote pairs (opening and closing), using HTML entities
+    quote_pairs = [
+        ('"', '"'),  # Double quotes
+        ('“', '”'),  # Unicode left and right double quotation marks
+        ('‘', '’'),  # Unicode left and right single quotation marks
+        ('«', '»'),  # French quotes
+        ('„', '“'),  # German quotes
+        ('‘', '’'),  # Alternative single quotes
+        ('“', '”'),  # Unicode quotes (numeric entities)
+        ('“', '”'),  # Unicode quotes (hex entities)
+    ]
+
+    # Create a regex pattern that matches any of the quote pairs, including newlines
+    pattern = '|'.join(f'({re.escape(open_q)})(.*?)({re.escape(close_q)})' for open_q, close_q in quote_pairs)
+
+    # Replace matched patterns with <q> tags, keeping original quotes
+    replaced_text = re.sub(pattern, lambda m: f'<q>{m.group(1)}{m.group(2)}{m.group(3)}</q>', text, flags=re.DOTALL)
+
+    return replaced_text
+
+
 def replace_blockquote(m):
     return m.group().replace('\n', '\n> ').replace('\\begin{blockquote}', '').replace('\\end{blockquote}', '')
 
@@ -49,6 +72,9 @@ def replace_blockquote(m):
 @functools.lru_cache(maxsize=4096)
 def convert_to_markdown(string):
 
+    # Quote to <q></q>
+    string = replace_quotes(string)
+
     # Blockquote
     string = re.sub(r'(^|[\n])&gt;', r'\1>', string)
     pattern = re.compile(r'\\begin{blockquote}(.*?)\\end{blockquote}', re.DOTALL)