bug#48192: forward-word and friends have inconsistent behaviour with Unicode and ASCII punctuation

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Daphne Preston-Kendal <dpk@nonceword.org> writes:

> However, the behaviour of considering "don't", "can't" etc. and almost
> any English possessive as two words for the purposes of count-words etc.
> is undoubtedly wrong for most users in my book.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

I think it would make sense to make text-mode give ’ (RIGHT SINGLE
QUOTATION MARK) a word constituent syntax, because many people use that
character interchangeably with ' (APOSTROPHE).

But that's not really the intention behind that character.  RIGHT SINGLE
QUOTATION MARK is to allow quoting like ‘this’ -- i.e., the ’ is not
meant to be used inside words.

So changing the syntax here would be controversial since it's "wrong" to
use the ’ character instead of APOSTROPHE, even though it's common.

Does anybody have an opinion here?

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