Re: modify-syntax-entry and UTF8?

[Geoffrey Alan Washburn]

James Cloos wrote:
> > > > > > "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.

	No, what I wrote is exactly what I meant, unless the author of the 
TeX-input method incorrectly defined \langle and \rangle.