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German 'ß' is treated as subword start (a capital letter?) in `subword-mode'

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54411: closed (German 'ß' is treated as
 subword start (a capital letter?) in `subword-mode')
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2022 02:44:01 +0000

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and subject line Re: bug#54411: German 'ß' is treated as subword start (a capital letter?) in `subword-mode'
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #54411,
regarding German 'ß' is treated as subword start (a capital letter?) in `subword-mode'
to be marked as done.

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From: Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: German 'ß' is treated as subword start (a capital letter?) in `subword-mode'
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 00:29:11 +0100

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To reproduce:

$ emacs --batch --eval "(progn (subword-mode 1) (insert \"fließen\")
(goto-char 1) (forward-word) (print (point)))"

Output:
5

Expected:
8

$ emacs --version
GNU Emacs 27.2.50

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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 54411-close <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#54411: German 'ß' is treated as subword
 start (a capital letter?) in `subword-mode'
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2022 04:43:03 +0200

Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Just try the command I provided. If it gives the expected result with
> new Emacs, then the bug is fixed.

Yes, it is.  Now

 (string-match "[[:lower:]]" "ß")
    ==> 0

this returned nil in older Emacs versions.  "ß" had been treated as
subword start before that commit beebd2a85e but isn't any more.

So everything seems to work fine now, and I'm thus closing this report.

Thanks,

Michael.

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