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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagno


From: Rasmus
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 11:53:13 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Hi,

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> > In general, whether a character is punctuation or a letter depends on
>> > the language.  "·" should be punctuation in English, arguably a space
>> > in classical Latin, and a letter in Catalan.  Is Emacs flexible enough
>> > to do that now?
>> 
>> But then you need to declare the language.  This is a buffer
>> property.
>
> No, it isn't.  E.g., what is "the language" of the buffer you get by
> typing "C-h H"?

Also, as Marcin points out the language is really a "block" property, not
a buffer property.

>> (In fact, I already need to explicitly add "['’]" to CASECHARS in
>> ispell-local-dictionary-alist to make hunspell accept words like
>> "it's").
>
> ??? You mean like "it’", perhaps.  Because the apostrophe is already
> in the dictionary's .aff file, and ispell.el gleans it from there.

I have to add those characters to OTHERCHARS, sorry.  And I mean like
"it's" (keyboard quote).  I use Hunspell, maybe that's why?  If I don't do
this "it" and "'s" are seen as different words when I do ispell-word on
them.

Rasmus

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