From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 12:30:04 +1100 Message-ID: <87a8msw6w3.fsf@gnus.org> References: <838u2hu6aq.fsf@gnu.org> <871t899tde.fsf@gnus.org> <83y4ahru04.fsf@gnu.org> <83fuwproyf.fsf@gnu.org> <837fi0sz29.fsf@gnu.org> <83egc8qzjh.fsf@gnu.org> <87egc7evu3.fsf@gnus.org> <83io1jpt4u.fsf@gnu.org> <87povqhj25.fsf@gnus.org> <87povqe5tr.fsf@gnus.org> <87ziuta4l4.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1456191066 13047 80.91.229.3 (23 Feb 2016 01:31:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 01:31:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, Elias =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5rtenson?= , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 23 02:30:56 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1aY1oT-0002cB-Ry for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 02:30:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53079 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aY1oT-0006HG-9d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 20:30:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54194) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aY1oA-0006H6-DM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 20:30:35 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aY1o7-0000S2-MH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 20:30:34 -0500 Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]:58330) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aY1o7-0000Rw-G7; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 20:30:31 -0500 Original-Received: from cpe-60-225-211-161.nsw.bigpond.net.au ([60.225.211.161] helo=mouse) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1aY1nl-0004Cj-0Y; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 02:30:09 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:01:13 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-MailScanner-ID: 1aY1nl-0004Cj-0Y MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1456795809.85938@efDct8PaDL3Yf/fuG64GSw X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.224.195 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:200518 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > Elias and Lars, what do you two think searching for o should match? > Should it match =F6 and =F8, or not? As a Norwegian, I think o should match =F6, but not =F8. For Americans, it should match both. > One way to handle each class is the asymnetric way: searching for the base > character matches all of them, but searching for one of the other charact= er > matches only itself. > > In Swedish, =F6 could be the base character and =F8 a variant. > In Danish, =F8 could be the base character and =F6 the variant. > > Would each of you be happy with that mode? Hm... I would personally be surprised if any of these characters matched the other characters, but that may be just me. Others seem to find that helpful, apparently. --=20 (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no