Re: command fill-paragraph deletes leading Umlauts if line begins with space

[Ralf Angeli]

* Eli Zaretskii (2004-12-27) writes:

>> From: Ralf Angeli <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 23:39:51 +0100
>> 
>> Couldn't the information about the character syntax which is used in
>> multibyte mode also be used in unibyte mode?
>
> The problem is, as Richard pointed out, that unibyte characters don't
> tell what character set they belong to.  Different unibyte character
> sets might well assign different meanings, and thus different syntax
> properties, to the same 8-bit code.

Sure, but IIUC Emacs (in unibyte mode) recognizes the character set by
looking at the language environment.  It could then look up which
syntax a certain 8-bit code has in the respective character set.  I
thought there might exist some mapping for multibyte mode which could
be used for these lookups.

-- 
Ralf