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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: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 20:49:42 +0300

> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 10:38:44 -0700
> 
> > The former, mostly, AFAIK.  Sometimes I see “this” (in the logical
> > order), but never „this“.  Wikipedia says „this”, but it's wrong
> 
> Yes, and it's amusing that Wikipedia cites a source[1] that agrees with you!

I guess that's another indication that Wikipedia should be taken with
a grain of salt.

> Rambling a bit: it might be nice to have a Hebrew-oriented mode that makes it 
> easy to type proper gershayim instead of " for the users who are picky about 
> gershayim (are there any?). This is probably beyond the scope of 
> electric-quote, 
> though.

Such usage is very rare IME.  Most people don't even know that
character exists.  It is not a quoting character, however.  You will
see that I used it in TUTORIAL.he, but mainly because it avoids the
mixed directionality problem, and I started using it after someone
pointed me to it.



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