diff --git a/crates/typst-library/src/text/smartquote.rs b/crates/typst-library/src/text/smartquote.rs
index f457a6371..4dda689df 100644
--- a/crates/typst-library/src/text/smartquote.rs
+++ b/crates/typst-library/src/text/smartquote.rs
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ impl<'s> SmartQuotes<'s> {
             "cs" | "de" | "et" | "is" | "lt" | "lv" | "sk" | "sl" => low_high,
             "da" => ("‘", "’", "“", "”"),
             "fr" | "ru" if alternative => default,
-            "fr" => ("‹\u{00A0}", "\u{00A0}›", "«\u{00A0}", "\u{00A0}»"),
+            "fr" => ("“", "”", "«\u{202F}", "\u{202F}»"),
             "fi" | "sv" if alternative => ("’", "’", "»", "»"),
             "bs" | "fi" | "sv" => ("’", "’", "”", "”"),
             "it" if alternative => default,
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diff --git a/tests/ref/smartquote-with-embedding-chars.png b/tests/ref/smartquote-with-embedding-chars.png
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diff --git a/tests/suite/text/smartquote.typ b/tests/suite/text/smartquote.typ
index 4940d11b2..f2af93ceb 100644
--- a/tests/suite/text/smartquote.typ
+++ b/tests/suite/text/smartquote.typ
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ He's told some books contain questionable "example text".
 
 --- smartquote-disabled-temporarily ---
 // Test changing properties within text.
-"She suddenly started speaking french: #text(lang: "fr")['Je suis une banane.']" Roman told me.
+"She suddenly started speaking french: #text(lang: "fr", region: "CH")['Je suis une banane.']" Roman told me.
 
 Some people's thought on this would be #[#set smartquote(enabled: false); "strange."]