Re: greek-style quotes for greek input method?

[Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>]

On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:03:18 +0900, Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> wrote:
> In article <87d3ts5l1u.fsf@kobe.laptop>, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> writes:
>> > Should we also modify the greek-postfix rules to include "<;" and ">;"
>> > for the same?
>
>> Something like this perhaps?
> [...]
>>  (quail-define-package
>>   "greek-postfix" "GreekPost" "Ψ" nil
>> @@ -1419,7 +1421,9 @@ e.g.
>>   ("i:;" ?ΐ)
>>   ("i;:" ?ΐ)
>>   ("y:;" ?ΰ)
>> - ("y;:" ?ΰ))
>> + ("y;:" ?ΰ)
>> + ("<;" ?«)
>> + (">;" ?»))
>
> I'm not sure.  In many Latin prefix methods, "~<" is used for "«", but
> in Latin prefix methods, "<<" is used for "«".  It seems that this
> asymmetricness has some meaning.  Isn't it more convenient also for
> greek-postfix to use "<<" provided that there's no standard for it.

Thanks for clarifying this!  Whatever feels more natural for the rest of
input-methods is fine.

I just tried the "<;" / ">;" patch in a local build and it works.  If
the rest of postfix input methods use "<<" and ">>", then I'll wait
until the patch hits trunk and remove my local changes :-)