From: tomas@tuxteam.de
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, mattiase@acm.org
Subject: Re: case-insensitive string comparison
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 15:30:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YtgDWNuJge2jC7kO@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <834jzcm2yu.fsf@gnu.org>
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On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 02:35:21PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 06:39:46 +0200
> > Cc: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org>
> > From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
[...]
> > Human languages are a messy mix, in which politics figures
> > prominently. Unicode reflects that.
>
> This could be hard on the Unicode Consortium, but relatively easy in
> Emacs: just bind the case table of the current buffer to something
> reasonable around code which performs case-insensitive comparison.
...still: "something reasonable" is (human) language-dependent; if
you're writing a German-Turkish dictionary...
Cheers
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Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-19 17:27 case-insensitive string comparison Sam Steingold
2022-07-19 18:06 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-07-19 18:56 ` Sam Steingold
2022-07-20 4:39 ` tomas
2022-07-20 11:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-20 13:30 ` tomas [this message]
2022-07-19 18:16 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-07-19 19:39 ` Roland Winkler
2022-07-19 22:47 ` Sam Steingold
2022-07-20 2:21 ` Roland Winkler
2022-07-20 3:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-07-20 16:22 ` Sam Steingold
2022-07-25 14:23 ` Sam Steingold
2022-07-25 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-25 19:39 ` Sam Steingold
2022-07-26 13:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-26 14:16 ` Sam Steingold
2022-07-26 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-26 16:00 ` Sam Steingold
2022-07-26 16:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-07-26 14:43 ` Robert Pluim
2022-07-25 19:37 ` Bruno Haible
2022-07-26 3:24 ` Richard Stallman
2022-07-26 8:00 ` Helmut Eller
2022-07-26 12:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-27 2:58 ` Richard Stallman
2022-07-31 8:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-26 14:28 ` Sam Steingold
2022-07-26 15:42 ` Sam Steingold
2022-07-26 16:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-26 18:56 ` Bruno Haible
2022-07-26 19:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-20 16:24 ` Roland Winkler
2022-07-20 17:06 ` Sam Steingold
2022-07-20 17:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-20 17:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-20 17:37 ` Roland Winkler
2022-07-20 17:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-20 18:10 ` Roland Winkler
2022-07-20 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-20 18:18 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-07-21 6:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-21 14:19 ` Roland Winkler
2022-07-21 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-21 16:35 ` Roland Winkler
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