From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#45660: 28.0.50; Changed word/whitespace syntax Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2021 20:20:44 +0200 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <87zh1nkzyb.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <87im8cr5t8.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <838s98bkyy.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="11901"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: 45660@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 05 19:32:31 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kwr89-0002wd-75 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 19:32:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51072 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kwr87-0006Dr-VA for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 13:32:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54206) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kwr7i-0006BG-Ua for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 13:32:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:59357) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kwr7i-0003g0-JH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 13:32:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kwr7i-0000nF-Fb for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 13:32:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Juri Linkov Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2021 18:32:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 45660 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 45660-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B45660.16098714702974 (code B ref 45660); Tue, 05 Jan 2021 18:32:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 45660) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 Jan 2021 18:31:10 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42666 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kwr6s-0000lu-Fp for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 13:31:10 -0500 Original-Received: from relay5-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.197]:45491) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kwr6q-0000lf-Ts for 45660@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 13:31:09 -0500 X-Originating-IP: 91.129.98.64 Original-Received: from mail.gandi.net (m91-129-98-64.cust.tele2.ee [91.129.98.64]) (Authenticated sender: juri@linkov.net) by relay5-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 419E31C0002; Tue, 5 Jan 2021 18:31:01 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <838s98bkyy.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 04 Jan 2021 20:44:37 +0200") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:197389 Archived-At: > Previously, many characters, including u+202F, had the punctuation > ('.') syntax. I modified that to be more close to the Unicode > Character Database (UCD), and u+202F is not a punctuation character > according to the UCD. It has the Zs general category, which means > "space separator", the same as SPC, NBSP, EN SPACE, and others. So according to the Unicode standard it should have whitespace syntax? And indeed, I see no reason for similar characters to have different syntax: name: NO-BREAK SPACE general-category: Zs (Separator, Space) syntax: which means: whitespace name: NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE general-category: Zs (Separator, Space) syntax: w which means: word > Removing u+202F and other similar characters from the "punctuation" > group had the side effect of leaving it at the default 'w' syntax. > > Should we make all Zs characters have the ' ' (whitespace) syntax? > That should be easy, but we should try being consistent in this > regard. Should the word characters separated by NO-BREAK SPACE by treated as one word? If there is no reason to treat space characters as part of words, then all characters with the Zs general category could have the same whitespace syntax.