From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jorgen Schaefer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: French quotes treated as parentheses Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 04:23:16 +0200 Message-ID: <871ws5qhd7.fsf@forcix.kollektiv-hamburg.de> References: <44C9A1D5.5090001@gmx.de> <85odv9eaz9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154139849 10000 80.91.229.2 (29 Jul 2006 02:24:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 02:24:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 29 04:24:05 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G6eUf-0002z4-OY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 04:23:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G6eUf-0006Mc-6X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 22:23:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G6eUS-0006MF-IJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 22:23:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G6eUR-0006M0-V5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 22:23:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G6eUR-0006Lt-KT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 22:23:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1G6eWY-00042j-H7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 22:25:54 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1G6eUM-0002uj-R3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 04:23:38 +0200 Original-Received: from d020012.adsl.hansenet.de ([80.171.20.12]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 04:23:38 +0200 Original-Received: from forcer by d020012.adsl.hansenet.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 04:23:38 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: d020012.adsl.hansenet.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:57764 Archived-At: David Kastrup writes: >> I think it would be better to set up a minor mode to switch to German >> syntax, and connect this with a language environment. > > That's pretty tough, given that the German speaking Swiss tend to use > a different direction from the Germans themselves. > > It is really pretty messy. I don't think it's a good idea to mark angle quotation marks as parenthesis syntax. Neither LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK nor RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK are. (They would have the same problem: German uses DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK as the left quotation mark, and LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK as the right one.) Regards, -- Jorgen -- ((email . "forcer@forcix.cx") (www . "http://www.forcix.cx/") (gpg . "1024D/028AF63C") (irc . "nick forcer on IRCnet"))