On 21 February 2016 at 18:05, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:

Elias Mårtenson <lokedhs@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On a related note, I would expect a search for ö to match ø. As would
> you, I
> > guess?
>
> No, I wouldn't.  :-)  Actually, I wouldn't expect anything other than
> the 26 first letters of the alphabet to match variants.
>

All right, but at least in Sweden we often write Danish and Norwegian names
using ø and æ, so for us we definitely want to fold those into ö and ä.
That was what I was referring to. I.e. the former are definitely variants
of the latter. In fact, there is an argument to be made for "ü" to be a
variant of "y" as well, even though it's very rare (pretty much limited to
a single word: "Müsli").


> It's like it's fine if you're typing in lower case characters for them
> to match upper case, too, but if you've bothered to type an upper case
> character, then you probably don't want lower case characters to match.


This is how Emacs behaves today, is it not?

Regards,
Elias