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: extending case-fold-search to remove nonspacing marks (diacritics etc.) Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2015 11:41:37 +0200 Message-ID: <83bnl7e5ri.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87fvakvwbf.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87386jx2m2.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83fvajeb03.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1423215709 9154 80.91.229.3 (6 Feb 2015 09:41:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 09:41:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, juri@linkov.net To: bruce.connor.am@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 06 10:41:48 2015 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 1YJfQ4-0007ad-9Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2015 10:41:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47382 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YJfQ3-0002QZ-Q1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2015 04:41:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59994) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YJfQ1-0002Q2-1V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2015 04:41:45 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YJfPx-0000LO-SH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2015 04:41:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:37354) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YJfPx-0000Kl-Jl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2015 04:41:41 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NJC00500FWW4V00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2015 11:41:40 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NJC0049OG9FQIB0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Fri, 06 Feb 2015 11:41:40 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:182509 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 07:06:27 -0200 > From: Artur Malabarba > Cc: Juri Linkov , emacs-devel > > > We already have the decomposition in our database, so nothing needs to > > be done manually. > > Yes. > By "manually", I wasn't referring to the database, I was referring to the c > code necessary (in the sense that it's not a matter of simply using translation > tables, it will just need some ad-hoc coding). > > > > And by someone who understands this more than me. :-) > > > > The "understands" part has been taken care of when constructing those > > databases. You just need to use them. > > Yes. By "understanding" I was referring to the c code necessary, not the > database. I've actually got quite familiar with the database. :-P OK, then please don't hesitate to post questions and ask for help, including for writing some code, if needed. This doesn't have to be a single-person effort (unless you want it to be ;-). Certainly advice and answers to questions are abundantly available here, for any code that is in the core, and for issues related to Unicode. TIA