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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 22036-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22036: 25.0.50; (emacs) Lax Search
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2015 06:30:59 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8d0328a8-6474-48cd-a39d-bce9c6c3458e@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <834mg6qx6f.fsf@gnu.org>

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> I made most of the changes you suggested; the few comments
> below are where I did not.

Thanks.

> > 15. "typing an explicit variant of a character, such as `ä'".
> > Consider adding the char name after this char, or do something
> > else to help readers see that what is quoted is not just the
> > letter "a".
> 
> I very much doubt we need this with Unicode-capable fonts all
> around us.  But if I'm wrong, we will see bug reports.

I agree that the name of the char is unimportant here (and so
inappropriate).  I will only say that even with a fairly large
font size, with my default font of Lucida Console I cannot really
see the diacritical - see screenshot.  I do suggest perhaps
trying a different char or "do something else" to make clear that
this letter has a mark.

Even with the default (emacs -Q) font, for instance, `á' is much
easier to distinguish from `a' than is `ä'.  The occurrence of
`ä' in the last paragraph, where there is no other to compare
with, is particularly problematic.

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      reply	other threads:[~2015-11-28 14:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-28  4:30 bug#22036: 25.0.50; (emacs) Lax Search Drew Adams
2015-11-28  9:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-28 14:30   ` Drew Adams [this message]

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