From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 11:03:37 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87mvr9wxqz.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87io1xwq1e.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87vb5wvzfz.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87io1wt4cc.fsf@wanadoo.es> <8737syoima.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <871t8iu277.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87y4apfpr6.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87wpq9qwia.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87k2m7qse0.fsf@wanadoo.es> <878u2mqhnl.fsf@wanadoo.es> <56C3795C.8080500@cornell.edu> <87vb5ogqqr.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455725111 14209 80.91.229.3 (17 Feb 2016 16:05:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 16:05:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, per.starback@gmail.com, kbrown@cornell.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 17 17:05:02 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 1aW4b8-0004UP-4H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 17:05:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59098 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aW4b7-0003TL-A6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 11:05:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45013) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aW4aC-0002Qs-Ke for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 11:04:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aW4aB-00027i-Sx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 11:04:04 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:55335) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aW4Zl-0001vw-TN; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 11:03:37 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aW4Zl-0005eL-1m; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 11:03:37 -0500 In-reply-to: <87vb5ogqqr.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:49:48 +1100) 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:200088 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Yeah, it seems that people think it's unimportant that if you search for > "i", Emacs will find "j" instead. My point is that this isn't a matter of principal. It is a practical question. I would consider that a misfeature, for my actual editing; but I might like it if I were editing Latin. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.