From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Dirk-Jan C. Binnema" <djcb@djcbsoftware.nl>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Character folding in the pretest
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2016 18:54:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r3gswh5e.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d1sc4rin.fsf@djcbsoftware.nl>
> From: "Dirk-Jan C. Binnema" <djcb@djcbsoftware.nl>
> Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2016 13:57:36 +0200
>
> > What type of character equivalence should be used is locale-dependent.
> > Everybody here agrees with that. Thus, the solution must also be
> > locale-dependent.
>
> > It would make sense to have the default based on the session's locale,
> > meaning that in a Swedish locale a, ä and å would be different and n and ñ
> > be different, but under a Spanish locale, the opposite would be true.
>
> Character equivalence is based on the language(s) of whatever is in your
> buffer, which might be correlated with your locale, but not more than
> that.
Indeed. Emacs is a multilingual environment, so any assumption that
the main language in every buffer, or even in most buffers, is likely
to be the locale's language will misfire.
Also, Emacs has features that need match characters which didn't come
from human-readable text at all, like file names.
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Thread overview: 102+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-03 0:31 Character folding in the pretest Per Starbäck
2016-02-03 6:34 ` Adrian.B.Robert
2016-02-03 8:00 ` Paul Eggert
2016-02-03 10:54 ` Yuri Khan
2016-02-03 15:57 ` Filipp Gunbin
2016-02-03 16:24 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-03 16:46 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-03 17:28 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-03 18:10 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-03 18:24 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-03 18:31 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-03 16:52 ` Yuri Khan
2016-02-03 11:08 ` Artur Malabarba
2016-02-03 13:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-03 13:35 ` Nicolas Petton
2016-02-03 15:06 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-03 15:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-03 15:55 ` Teemu Likonen
2016-02-03 16:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-06 13:41 ` Teemu Likonen
2016-02-06 14:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-06 15:09 ` Teemu Likonen
2016-02-06 18:38 ` Artur Malabarba
2016-02-06 19:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-07 1:06 ` Artur Malabarba
2016-02-03 16:54 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-03 17:01 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-03 21:08 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-02-03 22:32 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-03 22:52 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-03 23:50 ` Sacha Chua
2016-02-04 5:49 ` Ivan Andrus
2016-02-04 21:30 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-04 8:40 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-02-04 11:57 ` Dirk-Jan C. Binnema
2016-02-04 15:18 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-04 15:59 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-02-04 16:36 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-04 16:47 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-02-04 17:05 ` Werner LEMBERG
2016-02-05 5:09 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-02-05 6:01 ` Werner LEMBERG
2016-02-05 6:36 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-02-05 7:15 ` Werner LEMBERG
2016-02-05 7:22 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-02-06 15:43 ` Rasmus
2016-02-06 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-05 7:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-05 15:09 ` Filipp Gunbin
2016-02-05 19:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-05 21:12 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-02-05 22:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-06 19:49 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-06 19:49 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-08 14:05 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-08 17:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-08 17:57 ` Werner LEMBERG
2016-02-08 19:18 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-08 19:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<83oabrouwj.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-02-09 0:04 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-09 12:15 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <<E1aT7CM-0005LM-9f@fencepost.gnu.org>
2016-02-09 15:26 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-06 12:58 ` Rasmus
2016-02-04 17:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-04 19:35 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-02-04 19:52 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-04 20:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-04 17:27 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-04 17:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-04 18:18 ` Yuri Khan
2016-02-04 19:46 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-02-04 20:06 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-04 20:40 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-02-04 20:56 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-04 21:16 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-02-04 20:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-04 20:52 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-02-04 20:59 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-04 21:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-04 20:23 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-04 17:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-04 17:31 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-04 23:05 ` Artur Malabarba
2016-02-06 9:37 ` Per Starbäck
2016-02-06 10:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-06 12:52 ` Rasmus
2016-02-06 14:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-06 14:24 ` Ken Brown
2016-02-06 15:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-04 16:54 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-02-04 17:36 ` Paul Eggert
2016-02-04 17:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-04 19:25 ` Paul Eggert
2016-02-04 19:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-04 17:26 ` Teemu Likonen
2016-02-05 8:08 ` Adrian.B.Robert
2016-02-04 21:32 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-08 14:12 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-03 17:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-03 15:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-03 22:53 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-03 15:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
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