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: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 05:28:06 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87mvr9wxqz.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87io1xwq1e.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87vb5wvzfz.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87io1wt4cc.fsf@wanadoo.es> <8737syoima.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <871t8iu277.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87y4apfpr6.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87wpq9qwia.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87k2m7qse0.fsf@wanadoo.es> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455532116 29491 80.91.229.3 (15 Feb 2016 10:28:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 10:28:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 15 11:28:28 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 1aVGOJ-0001gT-Lj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2016 11:28:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58757 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aVGOJ-0001hG-03 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2016 05:28:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52589) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aVGO4-0001gl-1Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2016 05:28:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aVGO3-0004cM-5n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2016 05:28:11 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:46536) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aVGNy-0004aG-Oq; Mon, 15 Feb 2016 05:28:06 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aVGNy-0005tx-7D; Mon, 15 Feb 2016 05:28:06 -0500 In-reply-to: <87k2m7qse0.fsf@wanadoo.es> (message from =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93sca?= =?utf-8?Q?r?= Fuentes on Sun, 14 Feb 2016 15:27:19 +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:199962 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'm disputing its default status, not the feature itself. Apparently, > some people here think that the feature should be enabled by default. A > search mechanism that matches unrelated letters, no less! There is no a priori reason why it should be on by default, or why it should be off by default. It is just a matter of what most users prefer. You've made it clear you prefer off by default. Maybe most users agree with you. I don't know. But there is no a priori reason why searching for n should not find ñ. -- 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.