Re: Character folding in the pretest

[Óscar Fuentes]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden>
>> Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2016 20:46:20 +0100
>> 
>> It seems that the feature is not geared towards natural language, but
>> for the cases where the user cares about how the character is composed.
>
> You misunderstood.  Decomposition is just a tool that is used to
> search for equivalent character sequences.

Equivalent in the Unicode sense, right?

>> As mentioned on my answer to Eli, this feature should default to off.
>
> AFAIU, that opinion is based on misunderstanding of what the feature
> is supposed to do and support.

If my understanding is correct now (the feature is some Unicode thing
and not about how characters are used by people) I insist on defaulting
to off, unless we renounce to make Emacs amenable to those who use a
text editor for natural languages.