From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
"Dirk-Jan C. Binnema" <djcb@djcbsoftware.nl>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Character folding in the pretest
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 09:36:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56B38C2F.30006@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83r3gswh5e.fsf@gnu.org>
On 02/04/2016 08:54 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Emacs is a multilingual environment, so any assumption that
> the main language in every buffer, or even in most buffers, is likely
> to be the locale's language will misfire.
True, but although Emacs is designed to be language-agnostic when
handling buffer text, that doesn't mean it should be designed to be
language-agnostic when handling user input. If Emacs starts up in a
language-X locale, its user probably will be more comfortable using
language-X rules for searching, even if the main language in a buffer is
language Y. As an English-speaker when I search Swedish texts by hand, I
normally want to use English-like rules because English is what I know
and I can't really read the Swedish anyway. In English we tend to
consider accents unimportant when searching, and because we treat
“naïve” like “naive” we also treat “Ångström” like “Angstrom” even
though the latter is not correct in Swedish.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-04 17:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 102+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-03 0:31 Character folding in the pretest Per Starbäck
2016-02-03 6:34 ` Adrian.B.Robert
2016-02-03 8:00 ` Paul Eggert
2016-02-03 10:54 ` Yuri Khan
2016-02-03 15:57 ` Filipp Gunbin
2016-02-03 16:24 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-03 16:46 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-03 17:28 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-03 18:10 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-03 18:24 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-03 18:31 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-03 16:52 ` Yuri Khan
2016-02-03 11:08 ` Artur Malabarba
2016-02-03 13:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-03 13:35 ` Nicolas Petton
2016-02-03 15:06 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-03 15:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-03 15:55 ` Teemu Likonen
2016-02-03 16:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-06 13:41 ` Teemu Likonen
2016-02-06 14:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-06 15:09 ` Teemu Likonen
2016-02-06 18:38 ` Artur Malabarba
2016-02-06 19:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-07 1:06 ` Artur Malabarba
2016-02-03 16:54 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-03 17:01 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-03 21:08 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-02-03 22:32 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-03 22:52 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-03 23:50 ` Sacha Chua
2016-02-04 5:49 ` Ivan Andrus
2016-02-04 21:30 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-04 8:40 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-02-04 11:57 ` Dirk-Jan C. Binnema
2016-02-04 15:18 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-04 15:59 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-02-04 16:36 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-04 16:47 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-02-04 17:05 ` Werner LEMBERG
2016-02-05 5:09 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-02-05 6:01 ` Werner LEMBERG
2016-02-05 6:36 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-02-05 7:15 ` Werner LEMBERG
2016-02-05 7:22 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-02-06 15:43 ` Rasmus
2016-02-06 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-05 7:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-05 15:09 ` Filipp Gunbin
2016-02-05 19:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-05 21:12 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-02-05 22:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-06 19:49 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-06 19:49 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-08 14:05 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-08 17:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-08 17:57 ` Werner LEMBERG
2016-02-08 19:18 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-08 19:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<83oabrouwj.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-02-09 0:04 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-09 12:15 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <<E1aT7CM-0005LM-9f@fencepost.gnu.org>
2016-02-09 15:26 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-06 12:58 ` Rasmus
2016-02-04 17:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-04 19:35 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-02-04 19:52 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-04 20:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-04 17:27 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-04 17:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-04 18:18 ` Yuri Khan
2016-02-04 19:46 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-02-04 20:06 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-04 20:40 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-02-04 20:56 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-04 21:16 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-02-04 20:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-04 20:52 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-02-04 20:59 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-04 21:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-04 20:23 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-04 17:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-04 17:31 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-04 23:05 ` Artur Malabarba
2016-02-06 9:37 ` Per Starbäck
2016-02-06 10:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-06 12:52 ` Rasmus
2016-02-06 14:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-06 14:24 ` Ken Brown
2016-02-06 15:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-04 16:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-04 17:36 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2016-02-04 17:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-04 19:25 ` Paul Eggert
2016-02-04 19:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-04 17:26 ` Teemu Likonen
2016-02-05 8:08 ` Adrian.B.Robert
2016-02-04 21:32 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-08 14:12 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-03 17:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-03 15:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-03 22:53 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-03 15:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
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