bug#10494: 24.0.92; Syntax table and non-ASCII character interaction

[Andreas Schwab]

Aaron Ecay <aaronecay@gmail.com> writes:

> M-x text-mode
> don't
> C-a M-f
>   -> (as expected, the cursor moves to the end of the line)
> RET RET
> don M-x ucs-insert 2019 t
>   -> (text in buffer: "don’t")
> C-a M-f
>   -> (cursor is on the quotation mark, as expected)
> M-: (modify-syntax-entry ?’ "w" text-mode-syntax-table)
> C-a M-f
>   -> (BUG: cursor is on quotation mark, which should count as part of the 
> word)

?’ isn't of the same script as the surrounding characters, so there are
word boundaries before and after it.  See also
word-combining-categories.

Andreas.

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