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Wed, 5 Dec 2012 16:20:47 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt120.oracle.com (abhmt120.oracle.com [141.146.116.72]) by acsmt358.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id qB5GKkw4026970; Wed, 5 Dec 2012 10:20:46 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.232.122) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Wed, 05 Dec 2012 08:20:46 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <20671.28016.555406.918606@panix1.panix.com> Thread-Index: Ac3TAFyPqx8QHcdARVWBqEWcFDzxawAAzlFg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:67971 Archived-At: > > > `ignore-diacritics' is misleading. The variable would have > > > to be called `observe-decompositions' or something the like. > > > > 1. "Observe decompositions" doesn't mean anything to me. The verb > > should probably be more active - what does it mean to observe the > > char decompositions here? > > What about "heed"? "Respect" is a more common term with that meaning. But the point (to me) is that we are not conveying much by that - too vague. "Heed" meaning what? Heed how? Those are terms, like "treat", "handle" and "process" (verb), that are generally signs, in computer science as elsewhere, of insufficient understanding or laziness in communication. They say essentially, "it does something". Sometimes (not here though) such words can even be signals that the function in question is a congeries of things that do not necessarily belong together. We should be able to do better here. If I understood better what the function does I might be able to offer better name suggestions.