From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 48192@debbugs.gnu.org, Daphne Preston-Kendal <dpk@nonceword.org>
Subject: bug#48192: forward-word and friends have inconsistent behaviour with Unicode and ASCII punctuation
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2022 17:14:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735fkvp9e.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pmip6p83.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Fri, 01 Jul 2022 13:34:36 +0200")
>>>>> On Fri, 01 Jul 2022 13:34:36 +0200, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> said:
Lars> Daphne Preston-Kendal <dpk@nonceword.org> writes:
>> However, the behaviour of considering "don't", "can't" etc. and almost
>> any English possessive as two words for the purposes of count-words etc.
>> is undoubtedly wrong for most users in my book.
Lars> (I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
Lars> at the time.)
Lars> I think it would make sense to make text-mode give ’ (RIGHT SINGLE
Lars> QUOTATION MARK) a word constituent syntax, because many people use that
Lars> character interchangeably with ' (APOSTROPHE).
Lars> But that's not really the intention behind that character. RIGHT SINGLE
Lars> QUOTATION MARK is to allow quoting like ‘this’ -- i.e., the ’ is not
Lars> meant to be used inside words.
Lars> So changing the syntax here would be controversial since it's "wrong" to
Lars> use the ’ character instead of APOSTROPHE, even though it's common.
Lars> Does anybody have an opinion here?
What people should do is use U+02BC, MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE, since
that has word-constituent syntax already.
(what, the worldʼs not going to change to suit me, you say? 😼)
Robert
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-03 14:37 bug#48192: forward-word and friends have inconsistent behaviour with Unicode and ASCII punctuation Daphne Preston-Kendal
2021-05-03 15:26 ` Daphne Preston-Kendal
2022-07-01 11:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-07-01 15:14 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2022-07-30 14:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-03 15:49 ` Andreas Schwab
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