Re: Character folding in the pretest

[Ivan Andrus]

On Feb 3, 2016, at 2:08 PM, Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> John Wiegley <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> It's also nice when searching a Spanish document, where someone says "como"
>> and you want to search for it, but aren't sure if it was meant as a question
>> word (¿Cómo?) or a preposition (como).
> 
> Furthermore, in Spanish nowadays you can't expect correct orthography,
> even on supposedly educated environments. Also, involuntary typos
> involving accents are common.
> 
> I like the feature very much, but I'm neutral wrt its default value. If
> you ask me, as a programmer, I would say no, but as an Spaniard that
> occasionally uses Emacs to write Spanish text, I'll say yes.
> 
> BTW, searching for `n' also matches `ñ', which is definitely wrong.
> Those are not equivalent characters by any stretch.

Though folding b and v would be very helpful for some of the Spanish I read.  
:-)

-Ivan