Re: word boundaries in Asian languages

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnu.org> writes:

> () Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> () Mon, 19 Aug 2013 19:23:04 +0300
>
>    The right place to discuss this is emacs-devel, not here.
>
> Emacs provides var ‘find-word-boundary-function-table’, used in
> Capitalized Words Mode (see lisp/progmodes/cap-words.el).  There are
> several "subword" modes, Thai Word Mode (lisp/language/thai-util.el),
> etc.
>
> Perhaps some ideas and techniques there can be used in this context by
> normal users (with adventurous spirit :-D) here, as well.

Whoa, no kidding. The language support for Thai does exactly what I was
thinking of (though in elisp, not C), and it does it by loading the
entire Thai language into memory!

I've already got all of Chinese loaded into memory for the wubi input
method, so theoretically something could be done there...

If I manage to do anything with this, I'll post to emacs-devel.

Thanks!
Eric