Re: Character folding in the pretest

[Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>]

Elias Mårtenson <lokedhs@gmail.com> writes:

> My personal preference is that the expected behaviour of 
> searches is more related to the locale of the user, rather than 
> that of the document being searched. In other words, as a 
> non-Spanish speaker, I'd expect to be able to find ñ when 
> searching for n, even if the document I'm searching in is in 
> Spanish. There are definitely an infinite number of 
> counter-examples to this (enough to keep this thread going for 
> another 100 messages, I'm sure), but at least there is reason to 
> consider making the default based on the locale of the user. 

But what locale?  The keyboard makes the most sense, I guess, but 
plenty people switches between layouts (native and English, say) 
and it might be confusing to have different search results based 
on that.

The "main" locale surely will not work IMO.  I use a Scando 
keyboard, my Gnome is set to Spanish, and I mostly compose 
documents in English, German or Danish....

Rasmus

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