French quotes treated as parentheses

David Kastrup <dakgnu.org> 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.)

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        -- Jorgen

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    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.

Maybe they should be.  Wouldn't it be convenient?

     (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.)

We can solve this problem, for whichever characters, by
creating
a mode that selects one behavior or the other.


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