From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Questions about isearch Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 08:05:13 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <565C73B9.6030800@cs.ucla.edu> References: <83lh9lx6oi.fsf@gnu.org> <83a8q1x1cn.fsf@gnu.org> <87h9k74pkw.fsf@gmail.com> <83bnafse4f.fsf@gnu.org> <878u5jrvih.fsf@rub.de> <87mvtyqzyx.fsf@mbork.pl> <831tbaqwwv.fsf@gnu.org> <565AC7BA.7070400@online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1448899560 14293 80.91.229.3 (30 Nov 2015 16:06:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 16:06:00 +0000 (UTC) To: =?UTF-8?Q?Andreas_R=c3=b6hler?= , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 30 17:05:52 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a3Qxb-0007l5-Bg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2015 17:05:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41723 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a3Qxa-0000Ag-R7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2015 11:05:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53099) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a3Qx5-0000AX-Vq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2015 11:05:25 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a3Qx1-0000gP-13 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2015 11:05:19 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:37261) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a3Qx0-0000gD-Rv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2015 11:05:14 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1962D160779; Mon, 30 Nov 2015 08:05:14 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id az9biw-dB8Tp; Mon, 30 Nov 2015 08:05:13 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65AA6160E3D; Mon, 30 Nov 2015 08:05:13 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id to3PnlofugvU; Mon, 30 Nov 2015 08:05:13 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4EEA7160779; Mon, 30 Nov 2015 08:05:13 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 In-Reply-To: <565AC7BA.7070400@online.de> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:195615 Archived-At: On 11/29/2015 01:39 AM, Andreas R=C3=B6hler wrote: > Char-folding is an indo-european centric sledge-hammer While that may be true, it is a very commonly-used sledgehammer.=20 Sometimes sledgehammers are good tools to use. As Eli says, case-folding has been on by default in Emacs for ages.=20 Case-folding is also Indo-European-centric, but that has been OK. As=20 char-folding by and large does not affect unicase alphabets I don't see=20 why readers and writers of non-Indo-European text would care about it=20 one way or another.