GNU bug report logs - #25099
fill-paragraph doesn't put spaces between joined lines of Chinese characters

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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: fill-paragraph racial discrimination space zapping
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2016 07:37:28 +0800

No fair!
M-q (translated from <escape> q) runs the command fill-paragraph
which turns

a
b
c
d

ａ
ｂ
ｃ
ｄ

into

a b c d

ａｂｃｄ

that's right, it rips the spaces that should be put in the latter out!

You might say turning

一位共同朋友
兩位朋友是成員
三個朋友在這個社團
四個社團的成員

into

一位共同朋友兩位朋友是成員三個朋友在這個社團四個社團的成員

makes just as much sense as before, but I say it throws away valuable
punctuation (end of line, which many use instead of ，,。, etc. At least
leave a space. You do if one occurs in the middle of the line, so don't
just assume somebody put those newlines there for nothing...)

emacs-version "25.1.1"

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