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bug#22038: 25.1.50; Character folding issues with isearch
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
bug#22038: 25.1.50; Character folding issues with isearch |
Date: |
Sun, 29 Nov 2015 01:04:58 -0500 |
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> But I know nothing about the Unicode specifications;
We don't have an obligation to do as Unicode says, but it is certainly
worth paying attention to what Unicode says.
maybe you are
> referring to a more subtle issue, which may be unrelated to my point,
> which is simply that I think it should be just as convenient for a user
> whose keyboard may lack "ß" or "æ" to match these characters by
> searching with "s" or "a" (or "e" or "ae") as it is to match "ff" by
> searching with "f". This is not a language-specific issue AFAICS.
When a character has a standard equivalent character series in a
certain language, as "ß" does in German, that is a specific powerful
argument for isearch to treat the two as equivalent. But this
argument doesn't apply in a a language-independent way.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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bug#22038: 25.1.50; Character folding issues with isearch, Artur Malabarba, 2015/11/28