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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, angeli@iwi.uni-sb.de, rms@gnu.org,
	Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
Subject: Re: command fill-paragraph deletes leading Umlauts if	line	begins with space
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 17:32:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <x56529i4ie.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sm5dfgi8.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 07 Jan 2005 09:42:57 -0500")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>>> If LANG is not set or is "C", Emacs starts in English
>>>> lang. env., and in that case, all 8-bit characters has
>>>> whitespace syntax.
>
>>> Isn't that a bug.  Shouldn't it be something safer like
>>> punctuation syntax?
>
>> Perhaps.  But, C-a, etc. are also whitespace.
>
> Huh!!  You're right!!  That sounds very dangerous to me, but it
> seems like I'm just paranoid,

If we are being paranoid about licensing issues, we might as well be
paranoid about declaring characters whitespace.  I find it absurd to
assume that in texts any control character should be considered
equivalent to a space when formatting.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-07 16:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1ChBF2-0004VS-00@h409.eml.org>
     [not found] ` <E1ChQ3r-0002bn-Kf@neutrino.iwi.uni-sb.de>
2004-12-24 14:32   ` command fill-paragraph deletes leading Umlauts if line begins with space Richard Stallman
2004-12-26 22:39     ` Ralf Angeli
2004-12-27  7:35       ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-12-27 10:15         ` Ralf Angeli
2004-12-27 18:06       ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-27 22:28         ` Stefan Monnier
2004-12-28  0:18           ` Kenichi Handa
2004-12-28  0:14         ` Kenichi Handa
2004-12-28 17:25           ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-29  1:17             ` Kenichi Handa
2004-12-29  9:23               ` Ralf Angeli
2005-01-06  7:50                 ` Kenichi Handa
2005-01-06  8:19                   ` Ralf Angeli
2005-01-06  8:55                     ` Kenichi Handa
2004-12-29 20:46               ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-06  7:41                 ` Kenichi Handa
2005-01-06 13:53                   ` Stefan Monnier
2005-01-07  0:00                     ` Kenichi Handa
2005-01-07 14:42                       ` Stefan Monnier
2005-01-07 16:32                         ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-01-08  0:05                         ` Kenichi Handa
2005-01-08 23:53                           ` Stefan

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