Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As Stefan says, we choose the syntax for each character in any given > mode that is most convenient for the users.
The issue is the default syntax for characters. Obviously programming language modes should use syntax that fits the language definition as well as possible, and I've fixed a number of them for non-ASCII identifiers. We actually have tried to add syntax systematically in characters.el on the basis of Unicode, like the balanced pairs I referred to before. It just needs more work. It obviously isn't convenient for German, Swedish, Russian &c users to end up with unbalanced parens when they use quotes in text just at the whim of someone who doesn't know or care about the conventions of their language. > What Unicode says is at best a suggestion, perhaps worth > considering. As far as I know, it's authoritative, modulo occasional bugs and obscurities. What makes you think otherwise? It's ridiculous to propose considering each character and rejecting the Unicode definitions in arbitrary special cases, if that's what you're suggesting. Who is in a position to do that, especially if maintainers don't even know Western European usage? Are you abandoning Unicode-based Emacs? _______________________________________________ Emacs-pretest-bug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
