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

[Yuri Khan]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 10:08 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> 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.