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

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>>  It is naive, but it might make sense in a way.  We could imagine
>>  making the case-conversion commands convert each character to
>>  multibyte and check its syntax.  That way, the syntax of these unibyte
>>  characters could be determined from the current equivalency.

>>  What do people think of that idea?
>>  In particular, Handa, what do you think?

>     I've already done it in emacs-unicode (in regex.c and
>     casefiddle.c).

> Would you please install it in the current Emacs?

It seems that I misunderstood the original problem.

I've done that (convert unibyte to multibyte and then check
the syntax) in emacs-unicode because emacs-unicode doesn't
keep syntaxes of unibyte characters in syntax-table
(char-table).

But the current Emacs keeps them in syntax table and updates
them when a language environment is changed in unibyte-mode.
I've just confirmed that 0334 (U-umlaut in Latin-1) has
syntax word-constituent in unibyte-mode in Latin-1
lang. env.  So, I don't understand what is the problem.

And,
>>  making the case-conversion commands convert each character to
>>  multibyte and check its syntax.

Why does case-conversion have to check syntax?

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Ken'ichi HANDA
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