Any objections? $ grep -c ';WS;' UnicodeData.txt 17 $ grep -c ';L;' UnicodeData.txt 8920 $ ‘WS’ there is white space, L is left-to-right word constituents, and that comparison doesn’t even include the Han characters or right-to-left oriented characters. src/ChangeLog addition: 2005-12-17 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; * chartab.c (Fmake_char_table): Make character class default to word, not whitespace. XEmacs Trunk source patch: Diff command: cvs -q diff -u Files affected: src/chartab.c Index: src/chartab.c =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacs/src/chartab.c,v retrieving revision 1.38 diff -u -u -r1.38 chartab.c --- src/chartab.c 2005/10/25 11:16:21 1.38 +++ src/chartab.c 2005/12/17 21:10:55 ＠＠ -600,7 +600,7 ＠＠ /* Qgeneric not Qsyntax because a syntax table has a mirror table and we don't want infinite recursion */ ct->mirror_table = Fmake_char_table (Qgeneric); - set_char_table_default (ct->mirror_table, make_int (Spunct)); + set_char_table_default (ct->mirror_table, make_int (Sword)); XCHAR_TABLE (ct->mirror_table)->mirror_table_p = 1; XCHAR_TABLE (ct->mirror_table)->mirror_table = obj; } -- I AM IN JAIL AND ALLOWED SEND ONLY ONE CABLE SINCE WAS ARRESTED WHILE MEASURING FIFTEEN FOOT WALL OUTSIDE PALACE AND HAVE JUST FINISHED COUNTING THIRTY EIGHT THOUSAND FIVE HUNDERED TWENTY TWO NAMES WHOS WHO IN MIDEAST.