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Re: French quotes treated as parentheses


From: Sven Axelsson
Subject: Re: French quotes treated as parentheses
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 10:52:25 +0200

On 28/07/06, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     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.

That's pretty tough, given that the German speaking Swiss tend to use
a different direction from the Germans themselves.

It is really pretty messy.

Right. Other quote symbols do not use paranthesis syntax. And, as
previously stated, different locales mix and match them in all kinds
of ways. E.g. in Denmark French quotes are used »like this«, in Sweden
they are used »like this». In Sweden, double quotes are similarly used
"like this", whereas in Germany an extra symbol is used „like this".

--
Sven Axelsson




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