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


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 22:30:01 +0300

> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 11:43:47 -0700
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > The important aspect, IMO, is to try to let the users select the
> > alternative they like without having to know how to type the quote
> > characters
> 
> It would be reasonable to come up with an interface for that, perhaps listing 
> the quoting styles and options. It's not clear that the UI should list 
> languages 
> too -- although that might help, the controversies might be more trouble than 
> they're worth.

We can come up with labels that don't reference languages.

> Out of curiosity, in good-quality Hebrew text do you prefer top-level quoting 
> with " and " or with „ and “?

The former, mostly, AFAIK.  Sometimes I see “this” (in the logical
order), but never „this“.  Wikipedia says „this”, but it's wrong, the
alternative variant is actually the primary one I see here almost
exclusively.



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