GNU bug report logs - #24405
24.5; Possibly ``forward-word`` doesn't respect ``word-combining-categories`` for word boundaries on changing between latin/phonetic scripts.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 08:35:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Found in version 24.5

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #24 received at 24405-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 24405-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#24405: 24.5; Possibly ``forward-word`` doesn't respect
 ``word-combining-categories`` for word boundaries on changing between
 latin/phonetic scripts.
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 06:33:45 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> tags 24405 + notabug
> thanks
[...]
> This is the intended behavior, yes.  The word-combining-categories
> feature is designed to support specific rare situations with mixing
> the Far Eastern scripts (e.g., use of Kanji characters in Japanese
> text), not for arbitrary games with Latin and European scripts.

This was already tagged notabug, and I can see nothing more to do here.
I'm therefore closing this now.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
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