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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Yuri Khan <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 21:54:27 +0600
> Cc: Göktuğ Kayaalp <address@hidden>, 
>       Paul Eggert <address@hidden>, Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> 
> >   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.

I don't insist on the details, they were just intended to serve as
examples of what I meant, and need to be figured out before we
finalize the change.