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Re: French quotes treated as parentheses


From: Jorgen Schaefer
Subject: Re: French quotes treated as parentheses
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 04:23:16 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

>> I think it would be better to set up a minor mode to switch to German
>> syntax, and connect this with a language environment.
>
> That's pretty tough, given that the German speaking Swiss tend to use
> a different direction from the Germans themselves.
>
> It is really pretty messy.

I don't think it's a good idea to mark angle quotation marks
as parenthesis syntax. Neither LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK nor
RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK are. (They would have the same
problem: German uses DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK as the left
quotation mark, and LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK as the right
one.)

Regards,
        -- Jorgen

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