Subject: bug#10494: 24.0.92; Syntax table and non-ASCII character interaction

From: Aaron Ecay <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:40:34 -0500

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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug, and
the precise symptoms of the bug.  If you can, give a recipe
starting from `emacs -Q':

This bug relates to setting a non-ASCII character punctuation character
(U+2019, which is ’) to have word syntax, and using word-motion
commands.  Here’s a recipe from emacs -Q:

M-x text-mode
don't
C-a M-f
  -> (as expected, the cursor moves to the end of the line)
RET RET
don M-x ucs-insert 2019 t
  -> (text in buffer: "don’t")
C-a M-f
  -> (cursor is on the quotation mark, as expected)
M-: (modify-syntax-entry ?’ "w" text-mode-syntax-table)
C-a M-f
  -> (BUG: cursor is on quotation mark, which should count as part of the word)

If you re-run the experiment substituting - for ’ everywhere, there is a
difference in behavior – the cursor moves to the end of the line after
the call to modify-syntax-entry, as expected.  This leads me to think
that the problem has to do with ’ being outside the ASCII charset.

This is with a recent-ish bzr trunk build, btw.  The most recent commit
is:
revno: 106824 [merge]
committer: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
branch nick: trunk
timestamp: Mon 2012-01-09 13:48:13 +0800
message:
  Merge changes from emacs-23 branch

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In GNU Emacs 24.0.92.1 (i386-apple-darwin10.8.0, NS apple-appkit-1038.36)
 of 2012-01-09 on awe
Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.1038
configured using `configure  '--with-ns' '--without-gnutls''

-- 
Aaron Ecay