From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Character folding in the pretest Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 07:15:14 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87mvrg2zid.fsf@wanadoo.es> <20160204.180523.769253593641901728.wl@gnu.org> <20160205.070103.162978216111829522.wl@gnu.org> <877fifs3fy.fsf@mbork.pl> <8360xzqejk.fsf@gnu.org> <87twljqacn.fsf@mbork.pl> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455020499 27446 80.91.229.3 (9 Feb 2016 12:21:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 12:21:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, eliz@gnu.org, lokedhs@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Marcin Borkowski Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 09 13:21:29 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 1aT7IN-0001bk-Ax for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 13:21:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55121 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aT7IM-0003YH-NA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 07:21:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47328) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aT7Ct-0002vJ-6o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 07:15:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aT7Cr-0004m6-HV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 07:15:46 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:36851) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aT7CN-0004b8-CB; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 07:15:15 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aT7CM-0005LM-9f; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 07:15:14 -0500 In-reply-to: <87twljqacn.fsf@mbork.pl> (message from Marcin Borkowski on Mon, 08 Feb 2016 20:18:48 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:199591 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] I think it is clear that people want various different character folding rules. The differences depend partly on what language the text is in, partly on whether the user actually speaks that language, and partly on personal preference. Rather than arguing for an a-priori rule, we should let users show us what they actually like, and then try to find general patterns in those preferences so that we can make general defaults that users tend to like. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.