Ernest Adrogué <eadrogue@gmx.net> writes:
Hi there,
The Catalan language has a ligature consisting in one
"l" character, followed by a middle dot ("·"), followed
by another "l". See here for more details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L·l#Catalan
Is there a way to make emacs aware of this, so that it
doesn't treat a word containing "l·l" as two separate
words?
[You're probably not really interested in word boundaries, just word
constituents. For an illustration of the difference, see variable
`word-combining-categories' and what capitalized-words-mode does in
Emacs 23.]
You should define a Catalan language environment to be used in ca_ES
locales. (I'm surprised I didn't do it, as there's a relevant input
method.) It should set the base syntax of · to word, and set a suitable
default input method. The existing one, `catalan-prefix', should
presumably bind `~.' to `·', as in latin-prefix; it doesn't currently,
and maybe needs other fixes.
The environment would be something like this (untested), which is
probably better then trying to use categories. [The default Latin-1
character set is overridden in, say, ca_ES.UTF-8.]
(push '("ca" . "Catalan") locale-language-names)
(set-language-info-alist
"Catalan" '((tutorial . "TUTORIAL.es") ; maybe...
(charset iso-8859-1)
(coding-system iso-latin-1 iso-latin-9)
(coding-priority iso-latin-1)
(input-method . "catalan-prefix")
(nonascii-translation . iso-8859-1)
(unibyte-display . iso-latin-1)
(setup-function
. (lambda ()
(modify-syntax-entry ?· "w" (standard-syntax-table))))
(exit-function
. (lambda ()
(modify-syntax-entry ?· "_" (standard-syntax-table))))
;; Fixme:
;; (sample-text . "Spanish (Español) ¡Hola!")
(documentation . "\
This language environment uses the Latin-1 character set, sets
the default input method to \"catalan-prefix\", and sets the
syntax of `·' to word. It selects the Spanish tutorial, in the
absence of a Catalan translation."))
'("European"))