On 23 February 2016 at 02:01, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

>
>   > But you are Danish, are you not? As such, I would have thought that
> when
>   > you search for ø, you would want to find a Swedish ö? (this is the
> inverse
>   > of the natural Swedish behaviour).
>
> Elias and Lars, what do you two think searching for o should match?
> Should it match ö and ø, or not?
>

I can only speak for Swedish, and there, a search for o definitely should
not match ö (nor ø). This is the crux of this entire discussion, at least
for me.

However, a search for ö should match ø.


> IF you want o not to match ö and ø, then you want ö and ø to be a
> class by themselves.
>
> 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 character
> matches only itself.
>
> In Swedish, ö could be the base character and ø a variant.
> In Danish, ø could be the base character and ö the variant.
>
> Would each of you be happy with that mode?


This is exactly in line with what I have been proposing.

Regards,
Elias