From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: 69968@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#69968: Case-folding of Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2024 08:27:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86r0g0xhyc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86zfuoua66.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Sat, 23 Mar 2024 20:27:45 +0200)
> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2024 20:27:45 +0200
>
> I wonder why case-folding is not supported for letters from
> the Unicode block "Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols":
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_Alphanumeric_Symbols
These are not letters, they are symbols. And letter-case is not
defined for symbols.
> Is it because the Unicode standard doesn't provide information
> about their case-folding? And indeed they are missing from
> https://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/CaseFolding.txt
Unicode doesn't consider them letters.
> But OTOH, I can't find the file CaseFolding.txt in admin/unidata.
> This means Emacs doesn't use this file?
We don't. We use the case-conversion information in UnicodeData.txt,
as it tells us everything we need to know.
> Then should we add more case-folding information explicitly
> for this Unicode block?
What is the rationale for doing so? It's against Unicode, so we need
to have a good reason, as this will have to be maintained by hand, and
also because some users might be surprised.
> Case-folding is already supported for some characters from other
> Unicode blocks such e.g. FULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTERs,
> CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTERs, etc.
That's because UnicodeData.txt defines their letter-case conversions.
> But e.g. PARENTHESIZED LATIN CAPITAL LETTERs are missing too.
> What is worse is that in Emacs ⒜ doesn't have even a word syntax
> like its counterpart 🄐.
I think the fact that 🄐 has the word syntax might be a mistake. These
are both symbols, so why would we want them to have the word syntax?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-24 6:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-23 18:27 bug#69968: Case-folding of Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols Juri Linkov
2024-03-24 6:27 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-03-24 17:09 ` Juri Linkov
2024-03-24 17:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-25 7:37 ` Juri Linkov
2024-03-25 12:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-25 17:18 ` Juri Linkov
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