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: Single quotes in Info Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 05:44:50 +0200 Message-ID: <83386untcd.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87twzhgk84.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> <83lhksshdm.fsf@gnu.org> <9ee0c895-a178-40e1-b1c8-ed2b97071c6b@default> <87h9vgglkz.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> <83h9vcp0bq.fsf@gnu.org> <83y4onorcc.fsf@gnu.org> <83vbjrnd1f.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: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422503120 23713 80.91.229.3 (29 Jan 2015 03:45:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 03:45:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: bruce.connor.am@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 29 04:45:20 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 1YGg2g-0005m1-7g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2015 04:45:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57547 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YGg2f-0002Vq-KO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 22:45:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56336) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YGg2Q-0002U8-Bo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 22:45:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YGg2N-0004Gr-1z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 22:45:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout24.012.net.il ([80.179.55.180]:44665) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YGg2M-0004Gn-RD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 22:44:59 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout24.012.net.il by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NIX0040057XIN00@mtaout24.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2015 05:36:47 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NIX006J161A5N10@mtaout24.012.net.il>; Thu, 29 Jan 2015 05:36:47 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.180 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:181955 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 19:38:08 -0200 > From: Artur Malabarba > Cc: emacs-devel >=20 > I've been looking into what you suggest, but it seems the > decomposition property won't be enough. It does give us the necessa= ry > information for things like =C3=A1 and =C3=A7, but it doesn't say a= nything about > the quotes (which was the whole inital point), nor about characters > like =E2=87=92 (which I think someone else on this thread suggested= ). These are specific to Emacs, and should be added. > Furthermore, the point here would be to have "a" and "=C3=A1" match= each > other, but the decomposition of "=C3=A1" gives us two characters (a= s would > be expected). How are we to programmatically know which of these tw= o > characters is to be considered equivalent to "a with accute"? Is it > safe to assume it's the first character? I'm not at all sure we should compare a and =C3=A1 equal. It's an additional feature anyway. If we do want them to compare equal in some cases, then yes, you take only the first character of the decomposition (the so-called "base character"). > Otherwise, if we demand that the user types a=C2=B4 to be able to m= atch the > =C3=A1 letter, then this feature seems kind of moot. As I explained, the user can type the decomposed character instead. Again, this is not necessarily about easier typing, this is about comparing equivalent text equal.