From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Character folding in the pretest Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2016 16:33:36 +0200 Message-ID: <831t8pucvz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87mvriuk3a.fsf@gmail.com> <8737t9ex1p.fsf@petton.fr> <83oabxyf71.fsf@gnu.org> <878u314wl5.fsf@iki.fi> <83d1sdydk6.fsf@gnu.org> <87wpqij6qv.fsf@iki.fi> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1454769262 7940 80.91.229.3 (6 Feb 2016 14:34:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2016 14:34:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: nicolas@petton.fr, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Teemu Likonen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 06 15:34:17 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 1aS3wG-0000AC-Qh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Feb 2016 15:34:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54142 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aS3wG-0003n5-0k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Feb 2016 09:34:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46638) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aS3w2-0003mb-JQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Feb 2016 09:34:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aS3vz-00083e-C7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Feb 2016 09:34:02 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:38099) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aS3vz-00083Y-8a; Sat, 06 Feb 2016 09:33:59 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2871 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aS3vy-0005SV-63; Sat, 06 Feb 2016 09:33:58 -0500 In-reply-to: <87wpqij6qv.fsf@iki.fi> (message from Teemu Likonen on Sat, 06 Feb 2016 15:41:44 +0200) 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:199416 Archived-At: > From: Teemu Likonen > Cc: nicolas@petton.fr, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2016 15:41:44 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii [2016-02-03 18:16:25+02] wrote: > > > From: Teemu Likonen > >> Here's mine: I don't want "a" and "ä" to be the same in searches, by > >> default. In my language (Finnish) they are different letters and > >> phonemes, for example: "tai" (= or) and "täi" (= a louse); "sakki" (= > >> gang, crowd) and "säkki" (= a sack). > > > > Thank you. > > Actually I take that back. I've been testing (and thinking) the > character folding feature more and it's very unlikely that users will > face problems with it in the Finnish language. It doesn't bother me if > the feature is on by default. Thanks again for sharing your views. > A global switch (a dynamic variable) would be a good thing and I think > it should override any locale or language based magic, if such magic is > even necessary. Not sure I understand: a global switch to do what? If to turn character folding on and off, then such a possibility already exists.