From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#13041: 24.2; diacritic-fold-search Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 23:19:35 +0200 Message-ID: <83sj7kp57c.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20121130182205.C722F14B8D@panix1.panix.com> <87hao69b5r.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <20665.8224.844876.619203@panix5.panix.com> <87hao6zko4.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <83fw3qtboc.fsf@gnu.org> <87hao5jqu3.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <83wqx0s4jy.fsf@gnu.org> <331C8BE9164A4C228B0FBF0D579C708E@us.oracle.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1354742399 9551 80.91.229.3 (5 Dec 2012 21:19:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 21:19:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: perin@panix.com, 13041@debbugs.gnu.org, perin@acm.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 05 22:20:10 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1TgMO1-0006XV-VG for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2012 22:20:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47083 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TgMNq-0007dN-08 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:19:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35742) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TgMNn-0007bs-3J for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:19:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TgMNl-0003Y2-MP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:19:54 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:45116) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TgMNl-0003Xy-Iw for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:19:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TgMNu-000390-FP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:20:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 21:20:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 13041 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 13041-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B13041.135474238612060 (code B ref 13041); Wed, 05 Dec 2012 21:20:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 13041) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 Dec 2012 21:19:46 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55367 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TgMNe-00038T-DC for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:19:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:50176) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TgMNc-00038J-3r for 13041@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:19:45 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MEK00C00TS3PN00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for 13041@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2012 23:19:33 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MEK00CJ6TWLHX90@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Wed, 05 Dec 2012 23:19:33 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <331C8BE9164A4C228B0FBF0D579C708E@us.oracle.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il 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:67986 Archived-At: > From: "Drew Adams" > Cc: , <13041@debbugs.gnu.org>, > Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 11:17:04 -0800 > > > > I'm surprised to see case mappings hard-coded in > > > lisp/international/characters.el instead of using the properties > > > `uppercase' and `lowercase' during creation of case tables. > > > > My guess is that this is because the code in characters.el was written > > long before we had access to Unicode character properties in Emacs, > > and in fact before Emacs was switched to character representation > > based on Unicode codepoints. And no one bothered to rewrite that code > > since then; volunteers are welcome. > > Doesn't file CaseFolding.txt contain all the info needed? You don't need CaseFolding.txt, because UnicodeData.txt includes the same information, and uni-lowercase.el, uni-uppercase.el, and uni-titlecase.el already read that information into char-tables. > If so, what about populating the case tables from the latest CaseFolding.txt > file at Emacs build time? Or if no Internet access during build, populate from > a copy of the file to be distributed with Emacs. > > And provide the same population code as a Lisp function, in case someone wants > to refresh an old Emacs release to use a more recent CaseFolding.txt file. > > Would this make any sense? It would make sense to load case tables from uni-*.el at Emacs build time. Volunteers are welcome.