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Re: Questions about isearch


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Questions about isearch
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 10:57:51 +0200

> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> From: Andreas Röhler <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 09:02:19 +0100
> 
> > 4. What is the equivalent of case-replace and the letter-case related
> > behavior of replace commands to character folding?  E.g., if the
> > replace command specifies to replace "foo" with "bar", and we found
> > "föo", should we replace it with "bär" or something, by analogy with
> > letter-case behavior?
> 
> Considering language special cases worldwide at core will run into infinity.

The number of languages is finite.

> Would expect support of unicode-characters. Mapping them should be the 
> task of special language-modes built upon, i.e. a text-norwegian etc.

The question I asked is should we do that _in_general_?  If the answer
is YES, then the language-specific rules might tell _how_ to do that
in each case.  But that's a different issue.




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