Re: Making forward-word work with curly apostrophes

[Ian Eure]

On Aug 2, 2009, at 3:46 PM, A.Politz wrote:
> Apart from syntax-class, 2 chars form a word boundary, if they do
> not share a common character category. You need to do something
> like this:
>
> (let ((latin ?l)
>      (other
>       (aref (category-set-mnemonics
>              (char-category-set ?’)) 0)))
>  (add-to-list 'word-combining-categories
>               (cons latin other))
>  (add-to-list 'word-combining-categories
>               (cons other latin)))
Perfect, this is what I needed.

I mentioned something like this in a bug report before, but it got  
wontfixed. Basically, a bunch of symbols which are used in latin  
scripts (like directional quotes) are categorized (incorrectly, I  
believe) as CJK.

I'll report it again and see if I can get it fixed.

 - Ian