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

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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 54411 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54411: German 'ß' is treated as subword start (a capital letter?) in `subword-mode'
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 05:07:59 +0100

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

> To reproduce:
>
> $ emacs --batch --eval "(progn (subword-mode 1) (insert \"fließen\") (goto-char 1)
> (forward-word) (print (point)))"
>
> Output:
> 5
>
> Expected:
> 8

I think this has been fixed - see Bug#11309, and especially this commit:

beebd2a85e Recognise ß properly as a lower-case letter (bug#11309)
Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org> Wed Dec 9 13:27:16 2020 +0100

I get the expected 8 here.  Can you maybe try with a more recent Emacs
version?

Michael.

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