From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Character folding in the pretest Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2016 21:21:22 +0200 Message-ID: <831t8rufnx.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87mvrg2zid.fsf@wanadoo.es> <20160204.180523.769253593641901728.wl@gnu.org> <20160205.070103.162978216111829522.wl@gnu.org> <83oabvvbkr.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1454700148 27319 80.91.229.3 (5 Feb 2016 19:22:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 19:22:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Filipp Gunbin Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 05 20:22:24 2016 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 1aRlxX-0004bV-LD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2016 20:22:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50084 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aRlxX-0006Cu-3h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2016 14:22:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54330) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aRlxJ-0006Cm-Pr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2016 14:22:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aRlxG-0008IY-HS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2016 14:22:09 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:58908) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aRlxG-0008IU-Dz; Fri, 05 Feb 2016 14:22:06 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1958 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aRlxF-00026s-Mp; Fri, 05 Feb 2016 14:22:06 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Filipp Gunbin on Fri, 05 Feb 2016 18:09:23 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:199388 Archived-At: > From: Filipp Gunbin > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2016 18:09:23 +0300 > > I now realize that I'd like to see folded even distinct letters like > Russian Е and Ё - I cannot tell in advance when the author did it > correct. > > However, having folding on by default will certainly tell me that Emacs > is not respecting Russian alphabet, which some people here wrote about > too. Folding has nothing to do with respecting the alphabet. A and a are not the same letters, either, and have distinct positions within the English alphabet, and yet it is customary to have case folded during searching, and Emacs does that by default.