From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: perin@panix.com, 13041@debbugs.gnu.org, perin@acm.org
Subject: bug#13041: 24.2; diacritic-fold-search
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 23:19:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83sj7kp57c.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <331C8BE9164A4C228B0FBF0D579C708E@us.oracle.com>
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: <perin@panix.com>, <13041@debbugs.gnu.org>, <perin@acm.org>
> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 11:17:04 -0800
>
> > > I'm surprised to see case mappings hard-coded in
> > > lisp/international/characters.el instead of using the properties
> > > `uppercase' and `lowercase' during creation of case tables.
> >
> > My guess is that this is because the code in characters.el was written
> > long before we had access to Unicode character properties in Emacs,
> > and in fact before Emacs was switched to character representation
> > based on Unicode codepoints. And no one bothered to rewrite that code
> > since then; volunteers are welcome.
>
> Doesn't file CaseFolding.txt contain all the info needed?
You don't need CaseFolding.txt, because UnicodeData.txt includes the
same information, and uni-lowercase.el, uni-uppercase.el, and
uni-titlecase.el already read that information into char-tables.
> If so, what about populating the case tables from the latest CaseFolding.txt
> file at Emacs build time? Or if no Internet access during build, populate from
> a copy of the file to be distributed with Emacs.
>
> And provide the same population code as a Lisp function, in case someone wants
> to refresh an old Emacs release to use a more recent CaseFolding.txt file.
>
> Would this make any sense?
It would make sense to load case tables from uni-*.el at Emacs build
time. Volunteers are welcome.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-05 21:19 UTC|newest]
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
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 [this message]
2012-11-30 19:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-08-31 14:45 ` Michael Albinus
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2016-09-03 7:06 ` Michael Albinus
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