Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars

["Göktuğ Kayaalp" <self@gkayaalp.com>]

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> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Date: 2016-08-29 10:30:01 PM +0300
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>> 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.

If this is agreed upon (I think this would be the better approach
myself), I can update the patch in the weekend.  These are the most
eminent styles I found:

                     +-------------------+---------+
                     | label             | quotes  |
                     +-------------------+---------+
                     | curved69          | “‘’”    |
                     | curved99          | ”’’”    |
                     | guillemets        | «‹›»    |
                     | guillemets+curved | «“”»    |
                     | guillemets+lo9hi6 | «„“»    |
                     | reverseguillemets | »›‹«    |
                     | lo9hi6            | „‚‘“    |
                     | lo9hi9            | „‚’”    |
                     | japan             | 「『』」 |
                     | korean            | 《〈〉》 |
                     +-------------------+---------+
                        table 1: various frequent
                            quoting styles.
                     
Looking at the relevant section previously-referenced Wikipedia
article [1], these are the ones that appear the most frequently, except
the last two, which proper of their respective languages.  I felt the
incentive to include them as they were the most unique ones, but maybe
they're unnecessary if the respective keyboards for the languages allow
typing them easily (IDK, please comment).  I also lack knowledge of and
experience with right-to-left writing systems, so I'd appreciate advice
on that too.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Quotation_marks_in_English

Best,
-gk.

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