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Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars |
Date: |
Mon, 29 Aug 2016 19:23:31 +0300 |
> From: Yuri Khan <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 21:54:27 +0600
> Cc: Göktuğ Kayaalp <address@hidden>,
> Paul Eggert <address@hidden>, Emacs developers <address@hidden>
>
> > Default (‘..’ “..”)
> > Arabic (".." ”..“)
> > German (‚..‛ „..“)
> > French (‹..› «..»)
> > Cyrillic (‚..‘ «..»)
> >
> > etc. WDYT? (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark for
> > some more.)
>
> Single quotes are exceedingly rare as quotation marks in Russian, and
> likely Ukrainian and Belorussian. (I cannot speak for other Cyrillic
> languages.) German-style „…“ or English-style “…” curved double quotes
> are used as second level quotations.
>
> On the other hand, I cannot see anyone expecting to get a double quote
> by typing a character looking like a single quote.
>
> On the third hand, the default Russian keyboard layout does not
> contain any single-quote-like characters at all. (Unless you count the
> comma.) A typographic assistance feature that requires two layout
> switches per occurrence is not likely to see any significant use.
I don't insist on the details, they were just intended to serve as
examples of what I meant, and need to be figured out before we
finalize the change.
- [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars, Göktuğ Kayaalp, 2016/08/27
- Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/08/27
- Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars, Göktuğ Kayaalp, 2016/08/27
- Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars, Paul Eggert, 2016/08/27
- Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars, Göktuğ Kayaalp, 2016/08/27
- Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars, Paul Eggert, 2016/08/28
- Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars, Göktuğ Kayaalp, 2016/08/29
- Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars, Paul Eggert, 2016/08/29
- Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/08/29
- Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars, Yuri Khan, 2016/08/29
- Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars, Göktuğ Kayaalp, 2016/08/29
- Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/08/29
- Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars, Göktuğ Kayaalp, 2016/08/29
- Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars, Paul Eggert, 2016/08/29
- Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/08/29
- Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars, Paul Eggert, 2016/08/29
- Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/08/29
- Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars, Paul Eggert, 2016/08/30
- Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/08/30
- Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars, Richard Stallman, 2016/08/31