Re: command fill-paragraph deletes leading Umlauts if line begins with space

[David Kastrup]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>>> If LANG is not set or is "C", Emacs starts in English
>>>> lang. env., and in that case, all 8-bit characters has
>>>> whitespace syntax.
>
>>> Isn't that a bug.  Shouldn't it be something safer like
>>> punctuation syntax?
>
>> Perhaps.  But, C-a, etc. are also whitespace.
>
> Huh!!  You're right!!  That sounds very dangerous to me, but it
> seems like I'm just paranoid,

If we are being paranoid about licensing issues, we might as well be
paranoid about declaring characters whitespace.  I find it absurd to
assume that in texts any control character should be considered
equivalent to a space when formatting.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum