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On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Jesper Harder wrote:

> Font-locking fails in lisp mode when you have a multi-line string with an
> opening bracket as the first character of the last line -- subsequent
> words are coloured as strings.

This issue and the way to work around this limitation are documented in 
etc/PROBLEMS.  Search for "Font Lock displays portions of the buffer in 
incorrect faces" in PROBLEMS.