From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@online.de>
Cc: bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Questions about isearch
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 17:53:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83poyrmqkf.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <565C1961.9010501@online.de>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, mbork@mbork.pl
> From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@online.de>
> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 10:39:45 +0100
>
> Emacs's search capabilities are language-agnostic.
>
> AFAIU notion of case-folding refers to the idea of upper- or lowercase - which makes sense only with a couple of languages.
That appears to be incorrect, because UCD, the Unicode Character
Database, is not tailored to any language in particular, and yet it
does specify letter-case pairs for many characters beyond ASCII. The
language-specific variations to this basic data are then provided by
further databases, such as CLDR.
Emacs currently supports only the language-independent part of case
folding, character equivalences, and other related features. Addition
of new languages does not and cannot affect that.
> If case-folding is off by default, there should not be no harm.
Case folding was ON by default in Emacs since about forever. It is
natural to many, and can be easily turned off by those who don't like
it. That is why, IMO, we hear almost no complaints about it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-30 15:53 UTC|newest]
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2015-11-25 18:41 Questions about isearch Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-25 19:20 ` Rasmus
2015-11-25 20:02 ` Steinar Bang
2015-11-26 14:46 ` Richard Stallman
2015-11-26 16:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-26 20:46 ` Per Starbäck
2015-11-26 21:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-26 21:35 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-11-27 7:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-27 6:38 ` Richard Stallman
2015-11-27 8:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-27 16:21 ` raman
2015-11-26 23:18 ` Rasmus
2015-11-27 7:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-27 6:37 ` Richard Stallman
2015-11-27 8:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-25 20:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-25 20:41 ` Mike Kupfer
2015-11-25 20:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-25 20:14 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-25 20:30 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-11-25 20:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-25 21:58 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-25 23:04 ` Mike Kupfer
2015-11-26 3:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-27 19:50 ` Mike Kupfer
2015-11-27 20:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-27 23:57 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-28 1:36 ` Mike Kupfer
2015-11-28 9:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-26 13:28 ` Steinar Bang
2015-11-25 20:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-25 21:49 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-26 3:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-27 12:03 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-27 14:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-27 16:50 ` Per Starbäck
2015-11-27 18:10 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-27 18:42 ` Per Starbäck
2015-11-27 21:33 ` raman
2016-02-28 0:27 ` Mathias Dahl
2016-02-28 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-28 17:52 ` Mathias Dahl
2016-02-28 18:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-29 13:32 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-29 16:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-01 16:52 ` Richard Stallman
2015-11-27 16:55 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-27 17:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-27 21:18 ` Stephen Berman
2015-11-28 0:04 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-28 7:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-28 16:14 ` Stephen Berman
2015-11-28 5:36 ` Richard Stallman
2015-11-28 8:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-28 8:40 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-11-28 9:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-28 10:23 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-28 11:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-28 14:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-28 15:41 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-28 16:29 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-28 17:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-28 17:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-28 18:31 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-28 18:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-28 20:00 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-28 20:08 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-28 20:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-28 16:48 ` character folding future [was: Questions about isearch] Drew Adams
2015-11-28 18:34 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-12-01 11:34 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-12-01 15:48 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-03 23:54 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-29 6:03 ` Questions about isearch Richard Stallman
2015-11-29 15:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-29 9:39 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-11-29 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-30 9:39 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-11-30 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-11-30 16:05 ` Paul Eggert
2015-11-26 16:08 ` Rasmus
2015-11-25 23:15 ` Mike Kupfer
2015-11-26 14:45 ` Richard Stallman
2015-11-27 0:43 ` Juri Linkov
2015-11-27 8:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-27 23:24 ` Juri Linkov
2015-11-28 8:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-27 8:02 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-11-27 8:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-27 10:03 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-27 10:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-27 10:47 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-29 9:08 ` Andreas Röhler
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