From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 10:30:30 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: References: <874m631qwx.fsf@xi.bootis> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1472491861 1142 195.159.176.226 (29 Aug 2016 17:31:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 17:31:01 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?UTF-8?Q?G=c3=b6ktu=c4=9f_Kayaalp?= , Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 29 19:30:57 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1beQOc-00084m-I1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 19:30:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44995 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1beQOa-0008Jl-4O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 13:30:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45423) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1beQOT-0008JT-Df for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 13:30:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1beQOR-0003dJ-CG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 13:30:44 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:45359) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1beQOG-0003XQ-A7; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 13:30:32 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22571161124; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 10:30:31 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id ll4ILyAYn97I; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 10:30:30 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70AE0161128; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 10:30:30 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id 0kOuOOQkqEfR; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 10:30:30 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (unknown [100.32.155.148]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5147B161124; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 10:30:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <874m631qwx.fsf@xi.bootis> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:206891 Archived-At: G=C3=B6ktu=C4=9F Kayaalp wrote: > Well I think we'd rather not do that but improve the docstring instead, > because, looking at the big summary table on the page you linked [1] > there's not only a lot of variance among languages, but some of them > have multiple standard and alternative forms, and some don't have singl= e > quotes (e.g. Persian). I tend to agree. Quoting styles are controversial in many languages. This= is=20 true even aside from choice of quote characters. For example in French =C2= =AB is=20 widely agreed to be the left quote, but some follow it with a quarter-em = space,=20 some with a non-breaking space, some with an ordinary space, and some wit= h no=20 space at all.