From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 09:54:07 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <56BA27BF.1090303@cs.ucla.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455040583 15199 80.91.229.3 (9 Feb 2016 17:56:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 17:56:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel To: Pierpaolo Bernardi , Artur Malabarba Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 09 18:56:14 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 1aTCWK-0000CD-Tg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 18:56:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58978 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTCWK-0000em-8i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 12:56:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36256) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTCUO-0006Y2-RD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 12:54:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTCUL-0003AK-I1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 12:54:12 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:39038) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTCUL-0003A5-Ca for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 12:54:09 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CB6E1601BD; Tue, 9 Feb 2016 09:54:08 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id 2Te_3_ADQRQI; Tue, 9 Feb 2016 09:54:07 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EA3F160D25; Tue, 9 Feb 2016 09:54:07 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id ppzzNvUgcOl8; Tue, 9 Feb 2016 09:54:07 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from penguin.cs.ucla.edu (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 54DE91601BD; Tue, 9 Feb 2016 09:54:07 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.0 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 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:199622 Archived-At: On 02/09/2016 09:39 AM, Pierpaolo Bernardi wrote: > So, if I'm using my laptop on which I use a US-international layout I > will get no folding for any character in Latin-1 That's not what Artur's saying. The layout of the keyboard hardware is not the same thing as the language that the user can easily type in. I agree with Artur's point: typically, searching convenience depends more on the language of the user doing the searching than on the language of the document being searched.