GNU bug report logs - #36359
'sentence-end-base' 3 additional symbols

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Sebastian Urban <mrsebastianurban <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 16:15:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: fixed

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 36359 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Sebastian Urban <mrsebastianurban <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 36359 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36359: 'sentence-end-base' 3 additional symbols
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 03:12:18 +0200

Sebastian Urban <mrsebastianurban <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I just wanted to suggest to perhaps add this:
>
> - '>' - GREATER-THAN SIGN
>   (codepoint 62, #o76, #x3e),
> - '»' - RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
>   (codepoint 187, #o273, #xbb),
> - '›' - SINGLE RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
>   (codepoint 8250, #o20072, #x203a),
>
> to the value of 'sentence-end-base', like this for example:
>
> -"[.?!…‽][]\"'”’)}]*"
> +"[.?!…‽][]\"'”’»›)}>]*"

I can see » being useful here, but do people use > in these
circumstances?

And › I've never seen before -- what language is that used in?

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