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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars |
Date: | Tue, 30 Aug 2016 10:38:44 -0700 |
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
We can come up with labels that don't reference languages.
Yes, that sounds right.
> Out of curiosity, in good-quality Hebrew text do you prefer top-level quoting > with " and " or with „ and “?The former, mostly, AFAIK. Sometimes I see “this” (in the logical order), but never „this“. Wikipedia says „this”, but it's wrong
Yes, and it's amusing that Wikipedia cites a source[1] that agrees with you! The source does say „this” style is used in traditional printing, so I guess it's a now-obsolescent style derived from German. The user who wants that style could simply choose it from the labels you mention.
Rambling a bit: it might be nice to have a Hebrew-oriented mode that makes it easy to type proper gershayim instead of " for the users who are picky about gershayim (are there any?). This is probably beyond the scope of electric-quote, though.
[1] http://hebrew-academy.org.il/topic/hahlatot/punctuation/
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