Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs.

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2015-06-18, at 20:13, Steinar Bang <address@hidden> wrote:

>>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:
>
>>> In a search engine hits with "aa" instead of "å" would be expected,
>>> but in emacs search I would only expect to hit "å" and "Å")
>
>> You might, but others might have other expectations.  They should be
>> able to have them.
>
> I'm pretty sure all native users of "å" would never wish a search to hit
> "a" (of course... being able to search for "å" in the first place, is
> progress...). 

However, many non-native users might wish for that.  Use case:
a bibliography for a scientific article, written in Emacs + AUCTeX +
LaTeX, containing *lots* of completely foreign names, with the author
having *completely* no idea how the native users treat these letters -
he only want to look for that name containing an "å", and doesn't even
know which input method/code point/whatever can be used to actually type
this letter.

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University