From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: 13041@debbugs.gnu.org, perin@panix.com, perin@acm.org
Subject: bug#13041: 24.2; diacritic-fold-search
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 08:33:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83pq2mnzhb.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871uf2647i.fsf@mail.jurta.org>
> From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
> Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 02:58:17 +0200
> Cc: perin@panix.com, 13041@debbugs.gnu.org, perin@acm.org
>
> > Emacs contains ucs-normailze package which provides various
> > normalization functions. For instance,
> >
> > (require 'ucs-normalize)
> > (ucs-normalize-NFKD-string "Äffin") => "Äffin"
> >
> > Isn't it usable?
>
> This is usable to sort and compare strings, but I don't see
> how ucs-normalize.el could help in the search.
I agree.
> I suppose the searched buffer can't be normalized before starting a
> search.
Yes, that's not acceptable.
> So the search function somehow should be able to skip combining
> characters in the buffer. But to do this, the translation table needs
> to contain additional information about certain characters to ignore.
Right. This is very similar to how the search primitives currently
use the case tables, except that they don't skip characters. But
adding such a skip operation should be easy.
> Also the translation table should be able to map a sequence of
> characters like "ss" to "ß".
I'd say the other way around: map ß to ss.
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Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-30 18:22 bug#13041: 24.2; diacritic-fold-search Lewis Perin
2012-11-30 18:51 ` Juri Linkov
2012-11-30 21:07 ` Lewis Perin
2012-12-01 0:27 ` Juri Linkov
2012-12-01 0:47 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-01 0:49 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-01 1:20 ` Lew Perin
2012-12-01 6:50 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-01 8:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-01 9:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-01 16:38 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-02 0:27 ` Juri Linkov
2012-12-02 17:45 ` martin rudalics
2012-12-02 18:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-03 10:16 ` martin rudalics
2012-12-03 16:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-03 17:42 ` martin rudalics
2012-12-03 17:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-04 17:54 ` martin rudalics
2012-12-04 19:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-05 9:41 ` martin rudalics
2012-12-05 16:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-06 10:31 ` martin rudalics
2012-12-06 17:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-05 23:05 ` Juri Linkov
2012-12-06 10:32 ` martin rudalics
2012-12-04 20:12 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-04 23:15 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-05 6:50 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-05 9:42 ` martin rudalics
2012-12-05 15:38 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-06 9:25 ` Kenichi Handa
2012-12-06 10:34 ` martin rudalics
2012-12-06 17:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-07 0:58 ` Juri Linkov
2012-12-07 6:33 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-12-07 10:37 ` martin rudalics
2012-12-07 23:55 ` Juri Linkov
2012-12-08 8:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-08 11:35 ` martin rudalics
2012-12-08 12:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-08 11:21 ` martin rudalics
2012-12-08 23:07 ` Juri Linkov
2012-12-09 0:04 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-09 17:52 ` martin rudalics
2012-12-09 18:06 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-11 7:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-08 23:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-09 0:14 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-09 15:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-09 18:00 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-09 0:35 ` Juri Linkov
2012-12-09 11:35 ` Stephen Berman
2012-12-09 17:52 ` martin rudalics
2012-12-09 15:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-10 7:57 ` Juri Linkov
2012-12-10 8:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-05 9:42 ` martin rudalics
2012-12-05 9:42 ` martin rudalics
2012-12-05 15:38 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-05 15:51 ` Lewis Perin
2012-12-05 16:20 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-05 17:16 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-05 18:00 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-05 18:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-06 10:31 ` martin rudalics
2012-12-06 15:59 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-06 10:28 ` martin rudalics
2012-12-06 17:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-05 23:04 ` Juri Linkov
2012-12-06 10:31 ` martin rudalics
2012-12-07 0:52 ` Juri Linkov
2012-12-02 21:39 ` Juri Linkov
2012-12-03 10:16 ` martin rudalics
2012-12-04 0:17 ` Juri Linkov
2012-12-04 3:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-02 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-02 21:31 ` Juri Linkov
2012-12-05 19:17 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-05 21:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-30 19:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-08-31 14:45 ` Michael Albinus
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