bug#22038: 25.1.50; Character folding issues with isearch

[Stephen Berman]

Issue 1: Please support having multiple characters match a single
string in searches, so that e.g. "ss" can match the German letter "ß".

Issue 2: The current implementation of character folding based on
character decomposition often yields surprising results when searching:
e.g. the search string "f" matches not only "ff" but also "㎙" and "ffl",
but the search strings "m" and "fm" fail to match the former and the
search strings "l" and "fl" fail to match the latter.  I think all
recognizable characters in a composite character should be matchable by
searching.

Issue 3: Character folding does not respect case-folding in searches,
e.g. "f" fails to match "ℱ" and "℻" (with case-folding enabled), whereas
"F" does match them, but fails to match "ff".


In GNU Emacs 25.1.50.1 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.14.15)
 of 2015-11-20
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