Changing the word separators in X

[Sy Ali]

I've got a vague problem and I'm not sure how to search for my
answers.  I'm looking for some search terms so I can run off and do
some research.

I cannot stand the word separators which I see everywhere.  In every
application it seems to work a little different.  However, I'm most
interested in general X apps.

I have bash configured so that I can ctrl-left/right to hop between
words.  It works the way I expect (not that I use it much).

However, word separators don't work the way I expect in X, using
various window managers in various applications, like for example
Firefox.

Does anyone have any idea where I would begin looking for configuring
an xorg / KDE setup to have different word separators?
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