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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: self@gkayaalp.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 22:30:01 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83vayj9xvq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ac66cdb8-c17c-4c9f-8467-74d981ee7375@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Mon, 29 Aug 2016 11:43:47 -0700)

> Cc: self@gkayaalp.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> 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.



  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-29 19:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-27 14:22 [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars Göktuğ Kayaalp
2016-08-27 14:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-27 15:23   ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2016-08-27 19:16     ` Paul Eggert
2016-08-28  1:00       ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2016-08-29  1:55         ` Paul Eggert
2016-08-29  5:28           ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2016-08-29  6:14             ` Paul Eggert
2016-10-05 18:53               ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2016-10-05 19:06                 ` Paul Eggert
2016-10-06  6:40                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-06 21:31                     ` Paul Eggert
2016-10-07 18:33                       ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2016-10-10  3:57                         ` Paul Eggert
2016-10-13 18:28                           ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2016-10-13 18:35                             ` Paul Eggert
2016-10-22 14:00                               ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2016-10-23 10:25                                 ` Paul Eggert
2016-10-23 15:09                                   ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2016-10-27 15:12                                     ` Paul Eggert
2016-10-27 17:21                                       ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2016-08-29 15:08             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-29 15:54               ` Yuri Khan
2016-08-29 16:23                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-29 16:27               ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2016-08-29 16:39                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-29 17:19                   ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2016-08-29 17:30                 ` Paul Eggert
2016-08-29 17:44                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-29 18:43                     ` Paul Eggert
2016-08-29 19:30                       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-08-30 17:38                         ` Paul Eggert
2016-08-30 17:49                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-31 11:08                             ` Richard Stallman
2016-09-01 18:56                         ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2016-09-01 19:15                           ` Paul Eggert
2016-09-01 21:13                             ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2016-09-01 21:30                               ` Paul Eggert
2016-09-02  5:06                                 ` Yuri Khan
2016-09-02  7:30                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-02 10:37                                     ` Yuri Khan
2016-09-02 13:24                                       ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2016-08-29 16:15           ` tarball builds (was: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars) Stefan Monnier
2016-08-30 15:14             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-30 15:53               ` tarball builds Stefan Monnier
2016-08-30 15:59             ` Paul Eggert
2016-08-30 17:00               ` Stefan Monnier
2016-08-30 17:58                 ` Paul Eggert
2016-08-29  2:33         ` [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars Eli Zaretskii

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