bug#73909: [PATCH 2/2] quail/greek.el: Add greek-polytonic.

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 15:57:24 +0300, Thanos Apollo 
>>>>> <public@thanosapollo.org> said:

    Thanos> [...]
    Thanos> + ("; " ["’ "]) ;; U+2019 (apostrophe)
    >> 
    >> Strictly speaking, thatʼs a RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK. Apostrophe is
    >> ?ʼ U+2BC
    >> 

    Thanos> Indeed, but for some reason books in Greek & wikipedia[1] use 
U+2019.
    Thanos> I will be changing this to U+2BC, as it appears to be a better 
option.

I was commenting on the comment, not the choice of codepoint. If the
standards say to use U+2019, then use U+2019, especially if existing
documents already do so.

    Thanos> [...]
    Thanos> + (";C" ["’Ψ"])
    >> 
    >> This seems like a lot of work just to prepend ’ to the basic
    >> letters. Perhaps just
    >> 
    >> (";;" ?’)
    >> 

    Thanos> ";;" is already binded, since we are already using ";" as modifier 
for
    Thanos> vowels I thought to add it as apostrophe for consonants.  Maybe we 
can
    Thanos> add "|" for apostrophe but I'm not sure that it will feel natural.

    Thanos> These are all the combinations that you will see apostrophe in 
Greek.  I
    Thanos> will see if I can figure a way to free ";;" for apostrophe (U+2BC).

Is "ʼʼ" or similar available? If not, itʼs not a big deal to do it the
way you have it.

    >> instead would be more general (and easier to type).
    >> 
    Thanos> + ("QQ" ["“ ”"])
    >> 
    >> Iʼd investigate `electric-quote-mode'.
    >> 

    Thanos> If I only bind “ (U+201C) then ” (U+201D) is left unbound.  This was
    Thanos> the best compromise that I could come up with to have both with 1
    Thanos> keybinding, without using electric-pair etc.

It would be an unusual choice for an entry, given that theyʼre not the
standard quoting characters for Greek, and that `electric-quote-mode'
exists.

    Thanos> They are not used in Greek, we use guillemets instead (« »).  I only
    Thanos> added them because "greek-ibycus4" has them, I guess for stylistic
    Thanos> purposes.  This binding is unnecessary and can be removed.

OK

Robert
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