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

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Fri, 01 Jul 2022 13:34:36 +0200, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> 
>>>>> said:

    Lars> 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.

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

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

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

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

    Lars> Does anybody have an opinion here?

What people should do is use U+02BC, MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE, since
that has word-constituent syntax already.

(what, the worldʼs not going to change to suit me, you say? 😼)

Robert
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