Re: extending case-fold-search to remove nonspacing marks (diacritics etc.)

[Artur Malabarba]

On 6 Feb 2015 07:48, "Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> wrote:
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> > Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 02:32:46 +0000
> > From: Artur Malabarba <address@hidden>
> > Cc: emacs-devel <address@hidden>
> >
> > There's probably a way of handling these in c code, but it'll have to
> > be done manually (translation tables won't do it).
>
> We already have the decomposition in our database, so nothing needs to
> be done manually.

Yes.
By "manually", I wasn't referring to the database, I was referring to the c code necessary (in the sense that it's not a matter of simply using translation tables, it will just need some ad-hoc coding).

> > And by someone who understands this more than me. :-)
>
> The "understands" part has been taken care of when constructing those
> databases.  You just need to use them.

Yes. By "understanding" I was referring to the c code necessary, not the database. I've actually got quite familiar with the database. :-P