From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: French quotes treated as parentheses Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:42:09 -0400 Message-ID: References: <44C9A1D5.5090001@gmx.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154115758 19115 80.91.229.2 (28 Jul 2006 19:42:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:42:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: handa@m17n.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 28 21:42:34 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G6YE5-0005EQ-Rp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:42:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G6YE5-00012g-Az for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:42:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G6YDr-00010u-Tm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:42:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G6YDr-00010A-G0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:42:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G6YDr-000103-55 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:42:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G6YFu-00059J-Gh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:44:18 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1G6YDp-0005xK-Uh; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:42:10 -0400 Original-To: Sven Joachim In-reply-to: <44C9A1D5.5090001@gmx.de> (message from Sven Joachim on Fri, 28 Jul 2006 07:34:13 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:57750 Archived-At: The result is that they are wrongly highlighted with show-paren-mode on, and "Mismatched parentheses" error messages appearing in the echo area. I finally managed to work around that by putting (modify-syntax-entry (string-to-char "»") "(") (modify-syntax-entry (string-to-char "«") ")") into my .emacs, but would it not be better to give the French quotes a more neutral syntax (say punctuation), to not discriminate German against French users? I think it would be better to set up a minor mode to switch to German syntax, and connect this with a language environment. Handa, what do you think?