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From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: "Göktuğ Kayaalp" <self@gkayaalp.com>,
	"Paul Eggert" <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,
	"Emacs developers" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 21:54:27 +0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8WDDYvk4ynjfWXDiNehOkvDK9wTDoG5ZFNFNsDicjyCLg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83fupnbok6.fsf@gnu.org>

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 10:08 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> Making it a list with minimal explanations sounds like not very
> user-friendly.  How about offering several ready out-of-the-box sets,
> each one for some culture we know about?

>   Default (‘..’ “..”)
>   Arabic (".." ”..“)
>   German  (‚..‛ „..“)
>   French (‹..› «..»)
>   Cyrillic (‚..‘ «..»)
>
> etc.  WDYT?  (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark for
> some more.)

Single quotes are exceedingly rare as quotation marks in Russian, and
likely Ukrainian and Belorussian. (I cannot speak for other Cyrillic
languages.) German-style „…“ or English-style “…” curved double quotes
are used as second level quotations.

On the other hand, I cannot see anyone expecting to get a double quote
by typing a character looking like a single quote.

On the third hand, the default Russian keyboard layout does not
contain any single-quote-like characters at all. (Unless you count the
comma.) A typographic assistance feature that requires two layout
switches per occurrence is not likely to see any significant use.



  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-29 15:54 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 [this message]
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
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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