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: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 07:11:49 -0500 Message-ID: References: <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> <87povqhj25.fsf@gnus.org> <87povqe5tr.fsf@gnus.org> <87ziuta4l4.fsf@gnus.org> <87y4adzcia.fsf@gnus.org> <83twl0k1k5.fsf@gnu.org> <83k2lvi99c.fsf@gnu.org> 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 1456402351 15637 80.91.229.3 (25 Feb 2016 12:12:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 12:12:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, lokedhs@gmail.com, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Yuri Khan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 25 13:12:22 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 1aYumG-000729-Jr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 13:12:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42686 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYumC-000444-OO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 07:12:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40902) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYum8-00043p-8d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 07:12:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYum7-0001uk-Fs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 07:12:08 -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 1aYulr-0001Pt-6o; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 07:11:52 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aYulp-0000fI-Ar; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 07:11:49 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Yuri Khan on Wed, 24 Feb 2016 02:24:44 +0600) 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:200650 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. ]]] > When looking for confusables, you don’t want to fold. You want to make > letters of different scripts stand out, e.g. by font-locking. That might be a good feature, but the devil is in the details. Would you like to discuss possible details here? Meanwhile, I don't think it has to be one or the other. It might be good to do both. It might be difficult to design a convention to distinguish Latin a and Cyrillic a with fonts _all the time_. So here's an idea: when you search for Latin a and it finds Cyrillic a, it could put a special font or color (this tty has no fonts) on the Cyrillic a to show it matched as a confusable. Likewise, if you search for Cyrillic a and it finds Latin a, it would put that same font on the Latin a. This needs just one font or color -- to indicate a confusable in search. -- 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.