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Subject: Re: [RFC] Introduce ox-i18n.el
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Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> writes:

> Even though it is a defconst, you can still change it. You are not
> forced to anything. But you're on your own.

I agree, but it being a defconst, it comes with the message

  "This declares that neither programs nor users should ever change
   the value."

> By the way, it is a defconst because of the keys, which shouldn't be
> altered, not the values. 

If that's really a the concern then why not write a function to alter
values in a safe manner?

Alternatively, it could stay defconst, and there could be a
org-export-smart-quotes-alist-user, defaulting to nil but taking
precedence over its non-user counterpart.  If people specify a wrong
language code it'll just be ignored.

–Rasmus

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