> Also, as I understand the thread it seems like this is "by design" and
> there's no good/accepted way to get it to behave as I want without
> risking breaking unknown things.

Well, just taking the syntax entry as the sole source of truth and
ignoring the character script is probably the wrong thing.  

Maybe there is some other way to get the wanted behaviour though.  I
also found Bug#13129 asking about this.