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show-paren-mode does not match Chinese parentheses correctly

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 72068 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Siyuan Chen <chansey97 <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#72068: show-paren-mode does not match Chinese parentheses correctly
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 13:11:37 -0700

severity 72068 wishlist
thanks

Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii [2024-07-12 09:02:49] wrote:
>> I'm not sure this is a bug, since I think Lisp allows those characters
>> to be treated as symbol-constituent.  Stefan, am I right?
>
> I think that's the idea, indeed.  Of course, we don't have to obey the
> Emacs Lisp syntax, but I think it makes sense to do so.
> Admittedly, it would be nice to allow the use of other syntax rules inside
> comments and string for these kinds of situations.

I'm not sure if this should be closed as notabug or not, but I'm tagging
it as wishlist at least.  Feel free to close if that makes more sense.

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