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
next prev parent 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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