Re: modify-syntax-entry and UTF8?

[James Cloos]

>>>>> "Geoffrey" == Geoffrey Alan Washburn <address@hidden> writes:

Geoffrey> Specifically I would like to do something like the following

Geoffrey> (modify-syntax-entry ?〈 "(〉")
Geoffrey> (modify-syntax-entry ?〉 ")〈")

Geoffrey> Which is happily accepted but does not correctly interpret
Geoffrey> matching pairs of angle brackets in a buffer.

Those angle brackets you have there are U+2329 LEFT-POINTING ANGLE
BRACKET and U+232A RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE which are CJK or wide
characters.  I suspect you may have wanted the similar, narrow
characters ‹ and › which are U+2039 SINGLE LEFT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION
MARK and U+203A SINGLE RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK

Try these two lines instead:

 (modify-syntax-entry ?‹ "(›")
 (modify-syntax-entry ?› ")‹")

They may do what you want.

-JimC
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