Re: Huge auto-fill-mode bug intro'd in 20.0 still not fixed in 21.2.19

Kazuo> I don't know why space must be left at the end of line in Kazuo> Japanese. Could someone tell me? Since space characters are not normally embedded in text in Japanese and other Asian languages, such usage is very personal. I have heard some Japanese, Chinese, and Korean users complain of the loss of those spaces through refilling a paragraph. AFAIK most Japanese don't care; those who do, seem to care strongly. Personally, I make a habit of setting spaces around English embedded in Japanese; this is more readable to me and to several other gaikokujin I know. It is far more annoying to me to lose that space than it is to have an extra space at the end of the occasional line in all-English text. For another example, I have seen spaces used for emphasis in the way that all uppercase is used in English. If in the process of filling and refilling, " GAI KOKU JIN " should become " GAI KOKUJIN ", the meaning taken will possibly change. I'm sure you can think of more amusing or more embarrassing examples, even if kanji are used to help disambiguate the meaning. I could write a function to check for the situation in my own usage (I use JIS X 0208 "full-width" characters for Japanese romaji, and ASCII for English, so I can distinguish those usages easily). However, I have no idea what other people who prefer to have that space left in the text are trying to do, and it may not be possible to disambiguate syntactically. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ What are those two straight lines for? "Free software rules."