Subject: bug#68477: 29.1; bibtex-braced-string-syntax-table should handle non-ASCII parentheses

From: Roland Winkler <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 14:58:45 -0600

On Thu, Jan 02 2025, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Cc: [email-masked]
>> From: Roland Winkler <[email-masked]>
>> Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 13:09:41 -0600
>>
>> I only discovered this bug report now.  I believe utf-8 defines lots of
>> pairs of parentheses to which this bug report applies.  Is there a
>> generic way to modify the syntax of "all" pairs of parentheses (except
>> the curly brackets "{" and "}") to punctuation so that parsing will
>> ignore such unpaired parentheses?
>
> Emacs should already set up the syntax of those characters, see
> char-syntax.  Is that what you were looking for?

Here the goal is the other way round: Emacs should treat these extra
parentheses not as parentheses, but as punctuation, so that imbalanced
parentheses do not break the parsing of BibTeX fields that only care
about "{" and "}", and nothing else.