From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 22:30:01 +0300 Message-ID: <83vayj9xvq.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874m631qwx.fsf@xi.bootis> <8337lnbhc4.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1472499026 18221 195.159.176.226 (29 Aug 2016 19:30:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 19:30:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: self@gkayaalp.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 29 21:30:20 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1beSGB-00045q-6T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 21:30:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45424 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1beSG8-0005mp-GD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 15:30:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45193) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1beSFz-0005jB-HE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 15:30:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1beSFv-0001ec-Ad for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 15:30:07 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39783) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1beSFv-0001eJ-7h; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 15:30:03 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2303 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1beSFt-00029H-C1; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 15:30:01 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Paul Eggert on Mon, 29 Aug 2016 11:43:47 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:206904 Archived-At: > Cc: self@gkayaalp.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 11:43:47 -0700 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > The important aspect, IMO, is to try to let the users select the > > alternative they like without having to know how to type the quote > > characters > > It would be reasonable to come up with an interface for that, perhaps listing > the quoting styles and options. It's not clear that the UI should list languages > too -- although that might help, the controversies might be more trouble than > they're worth. We can come up with labels that don't reference languages. > 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, the alternative variant is actually the primary one I see here almost exclusively.