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RE: lax matching is not a great default behavior


From: Drew Adams
Subject: RE: lax matching is not a great default behavior
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 15:57:47 -0800 (PST)

> > AFAICT, "character folding" is as good as we've come up
> > with, so far - not some specific kind of character folding.
> 
> How about "fuzzy matching"?

Too fuzzy. ;-)  It means _less_ than character folding.

This is a case of folding (abstracting from) certain
characteristics of characters.

(I have no problem with our calling it character folding.
But if there is a more specific name for kind of character
folding we're doing here, let's hear it.)



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