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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Daphne Preston-Kendal <dpk@nonceword.org>
Cc: 48192@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#48192: forward-word and friends have inconsistent behaviour with Unicode and ASCII punctuation
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2022 13:34:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pmip6p83.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FC5169CD-CFA6-4BF1-B0BC-394F278B5BDA@nonceword.org> (Daphne Preston-Kendal's message of "Mon, 3 May 2021 17:26:44 +0200")

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.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

I think it would make sense to make text-mode give ’ (RIGHT SINGLE
QUOTATION MARK) a word constituent syntax, because many people use that
character interchangeably with ' (APOSTROPHE).

But that's not really the intention behind that character.  RIGHT SINGLE
QUOTATION MARK is to allow quoting like ‘this’ -- i.e., the ’ is not
meant to be used inside words.

So changing the syntax here would be controversial since it's "wrong" to
use the ’ character instead of APOSTROPHE, even though it's common.

Does anybody have an opinion here?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no





  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-01 11:34 UTC|newest]

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 [this message]
2022-07-01 15:14     ` Robert Pluim
2022-07-30 14:07       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-03 15:49 ` Andreas Schwab

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