* lisp/international/characters.el (standard-case-table): Set syntax of ?»

and ?« to punctuation.

etc/NEWS

@@ -415,6 +415,9 @@ It is layered as:
 
 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.4
 
+** The syntax of ?» and ?« is now punctuation instead of matched parens.
+Some languages match those as »...« and others as «...» so better stay neutral.
+
 ** The default file coding for Emacs Lisp files is now utf-8.
 (See file-coding-system-alist.)  In most cases, this change is transparent, but
 files that contain unusual characters without specifying an explicit coding

lisp/ChangeLog

+2013-06-17  Stefan Monnier  <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
+
+	* international/characters.el (standard-case-table): Set syntax of ?»
+	and ?« to punctuation.
+
 2013-06-16  Juanma Barranquero  <lekktu@gmail.com>
 	* progmodes/prog-mode.el (prog--prettify-font-lock-compose-symbol):

lisp/international/characters.el

@@ -512,7 +512,13 @@ with L, LRE, or LRO Unicode bidi character type.")
   (set-case-syntax ?¦ "_" tbl)
   (set-case-syntax ?§ "." tbl)
   (set-case-syntax ?© "_" tbl)
-  (set-case-syntax-delims 171 187 tbl)	; « »
+  ;; French wants
+  ;;   (set-case-syntax-delims ?« ?» tbl)
+  ;; And German wants
+  ;;   (set-case-syntax-delims ?» ?« tbl)
+  ;; So let's stay neutral and let users set these up if/when they want to.
+  (set-case-syntax ?« "." tbl)
+  (set-case-syntax ?» "." tbl)
   (set-case-syntax ?¬ "_" tbl)
   (set-case-syntax ?­ "_" tbl)
   (set-case-syntax ?® "_" tbl)