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French quotes treated as parentheses
From: |
Sven Joachim |
Subject: |
French quotes treated as parentheses |
Date: |
Fri, 28 Jul 2006 07:34:13 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060713) |
The French quotes (« and ») do have a `parentheses' syntax. This has a
rather negative effect in German texts, since these use _reversed_
French quotes:
Ich sagte: »Emacs ist toll!«
(I said: "Emacs is great!")
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?