Hi, isn't "\setcharacterspacing" a global setup? Please have a look at my minimal below: does "frenchpunctuation" need to be set for footnotes seperately? What'd be the recommended way to do so? Are there other text elements that need their own frenchpunctuation (tables, toc, etc.)? Thanks a lot, Steffen ------- \starttext \mainlanguage[fr]\setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation]% AUSNAHME «Teste»\footnote{«Teste»} «Teste»\footnote{\setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation] «Teste»} \stoptext