How to change autocomplete settings in the Collabora Office plug-in

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The Basics

COOLWSD version: 25.04.3.1(git hash: e724e42045)
LOKit version: Collabora Office 25.04.3.1(git hash: 531aea4c7d)
Served by: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Server ID: a891f392
WOPI host: nextcloud 31.0.6.2 - richdocuments 8.7.1

Summary of the issue you are facing:

I use the Collabora Office plugin that is in the default in the Docker image. When I type some text patterns, the text is automatically altered (e.g.(C) becomes the copyright symbol). I want to turn this off but there seems not to be any setting to do so. The Collabora documentation suggests a setting under the ‘Tools’ menu - but this menu item does not exist in my installation.
I would be happy with a command-line option (I administer this local installation) to edit autocorrect patterns for all users - I presume there must be a look-up table for these buried somewhere (?).

I’d love some advice from the community.

Steps to replicate it (hint: details matter!):

  1. Type ‘(C)’
  2. Type ‘,’
  3. Undo the autotext that has inserted an unwanted copyright symbol.