GNU bug report logs - #24901
Patch to add support for curly quotes to electric-pair-mode

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>

Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 12:01:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

Done: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #32 received at 24901 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: rrt <at> sc3d.org
Cc: 24901 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24901: Patch updated slightly
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2016 18:04:43 +0200

> Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2016 17:55:21 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: 24901 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> The problem I was thinking about is that in RTL script you would type
> the right quote first, to serve as the opening quote.  That's because
> the quotes are not mirrored by the bidirectional reordering for
> display, like parentheses are.

To be perfectly accurate: some of them are mirrored (e.g., u+00ab and
u+00bb).  But not the ones we were talking about.
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