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Re: char equivalence classes in search - why not symmetric?


From: Ulrich Mueller
Subject: Re: char equivalence classes in search - why not symmetric?
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 07:36:51 +0200

>>>>> On Tue, 01 Sep 2015, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> No.  You are asking for that only when you use a search pattern
>> that does not use the diacriticals.  When you search with á in
>> the pattern you are NOT asking for matches that disregard the
>> diacriticals.  And why not?

> Because á does include a diacritical. By specifying it, the user
> told us the diacriticals are important, and shouldn't be
> disregarded.

I disagree. When I search for "Müller" I want it to also match
"Muller" because some people (e.g., in French speaking countries) use
this as an approximation of the spelling.

(I'd also like it to match "Mueller" but that's a different issue.)

Ulrich



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