On 02/03/2016 10:41 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> We don't, at least not yet.  We want to collect feedback.

I love the new behaviour:

* It makes it much nicer to search through documents written in French when I'm not using a French keyboard.
* It also makes it easier to search through emails in which some accents have been omitted (probably for the same reason as above).
* It even makes it nicer to search for my own name: it's definitely wrong to spell it “Clement”, but many websites reject “Clément” due to the accent, so I end up with emails addressed to “Clement”.

I don't read Emacs' change logs carefully enough to hear about every new feature. Disabling features that I don't like doesn't bother me; on the other hand, discovering features to enable is much harder. So I'd vote for this being on by default.