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 07:15:11 -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> <83oab6gfiw.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 1456402560 19735 80.91.229.3 (25 Feb 2016 12:16:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 12:16:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: larsi@gnus.org, lokedhs@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 25 13:15:51 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 1aYupj-0000iU-FU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 13:15:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42706 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYupi-0006LS-SA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 07:15:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43607) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYupa-0006K6-TL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 07:15:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYupa-0003qQ-8J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 07:15:42 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37053) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYup6-0003Y5-LY; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 07:15:12 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aYup5-0001bu-M8; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 07:15:11 -0500 In-reply-to: <83oab6gfiw.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 24 Feb 2016 19:54:47 +0200) 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:200651 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. ]]] > Not sure what to explain, to tell the truth. What I had in mind is > cases like á, which I don't think any user of any language will ever > want to consider a non-decomposable character. In French and Spanish, á is a decorated version of a. Perhaps there is no language in which á has any other status. My point about decorated letters is that _in general_ the list of decorated versions of letters is language-dependent. For instance, ö is a decorated o in English and French, but not in Swedish. The tables that define decorated letters need to be language-specific. If it happens that all languages agree about á, that won't be a problem. -- 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.