From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Non-ASCII chars in quail rules Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 09:02:06 +0900 Message-ID: <8761h48d8h.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <20140829101804.4c904346@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20140830184844.797d7340@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20140831100035.6487ff7f@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20140831172949.7ba54d1a@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20140903074355.2a7cd6e2@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20140903175945.726025a0@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1409788972 14265 80.91.229.3 (4 Sep 2014 00:02:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 00:02:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Perry E. Metzger" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 04 02:02:44 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XPKVf-0006s6-9J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2014 02:02:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48131 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XPKVe-0002ZD-Sj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2014 20:02:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48739) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XPKVL-0002Z7-O5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2014 20:02:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XPKVE-0003cT-7p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2014 20:02:23 -0400 Original-Received: from shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.161]:57593) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XPKVD-0003bm-Tr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2014 20:02:16 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E0001C39A1; Thu, 4 Sep 2014 09:02:06 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 923731A30A6; Thu, 4 Sep 2014 09:02:06 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <20140903175945.726025a0@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" acf1c26e3019 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.161 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:173998 Archived-At: Perry E. Metzger writes: > It would seem that CHAR_PRINTABLE_P is the right thing, then, since > other characters can't be inserted (at least not validly). What makes you think that? As far as Emacs is concerned, a character is a character. For example, in bidi text you might want (in theory -- in practice it's usually a bad idea) to insert a directional marker character. In Japanese or Chinese where the normal practice is to break on any word component, you might want to use a word joiner character to save English words from the kinsoku scalpel.