Re: [PATCH] better isearch support for complex input methods

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Karl Fogel <address@hidden>
> Date: 03 Apr 2001 13:48:34 -0500
> 
> However, this can only work if C-w knows to behave differently when
> looking at a multibyte Chinese character than when looking at some
> other kind of text.  And of course, it can't just be for Chinese:
> Emacs would have to recognize a general classification of "characters
> that are themselves words" in various lanuages.  Can it do this?

Well, how about if it always treated entire charsets in the same
manner?  For example, all Chinese characters would be treated as
words.  We can surely classify characters by the character set they
belong to, even when the internal character representation is changed
to be based on Unicode.