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: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 13:51:46 +1100 Message-ID: <87povqhj25.fsf@gnus.org> References: <83pow26svf.fsf@gnu.org> <87a8n5srbp.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83d1s17npz.fsf@gnu.org> <87oablfpn3.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <834mdd6llx.fsf@gnu.org> <7fbb8bc7-9a97-4bad-a103-a6690a35241d@default> <834mdc5w6o.fsf@gnu.org> <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> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1456023159 4196 80.91.229.3 (21 Feb 2016 02:52:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 02:52:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lokedhs@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 21 03:52:30 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 1aXK8K-0003VT-Gf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 03:52:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37395 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXK8J-0007CA-Uc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 21:52:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53480) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXK8G-000797-KC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 21:52:25 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXK8C-0006GA-Bd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 21:52:23 -0500 Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]:59258) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXK8C-0006EO-4b; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 21:52:20 -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 1aXK7i-0005MF-Uw; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 03:51:51 +0100 In-Reply-To: <83io1jpt4u.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 20 Feb 2016 12:34:41 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-MailScanner-ID: 1aXK7i-0005MF-Uw MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1456627914.22863@URr5KtLDb49OZ6BCIp954Q 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:200357 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > The above won't support finding decomposed sequences as in a=CC=81 (there > are 2 characters here, they are just displayed as one). They are displayed as two characters in this Emacs (current Ubuntu, Emacs git master). :-) > I hope it's agreed that it is imperative for us to support finding > such decomposed sequences (and we already do, under the current > character-folding default). Yes. > It is, of course, possible to support this without normalization, by > having all those combinations in the database you proposed. But why > should we bother creating and maintaining such a database (and > updating it whenever a new Unicode version is released), when one is > already available in data that we already read into Emacs? So we > currently implement this by using the decomposition information in the > Unicode database. If that database gives us all that, then I'm all for using that database instead of creating our own, of course. But why doesn't C-s o find =C3=B8, and C-s l find =C5=82 then?=20=20 --=20 (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no