Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2016-02-13, at 17:50, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

>> From: Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden>, address@hidden
>> Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 17:37:48 +0100
>> 
>> 
>> On 2016-02-12, at 09:44, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> > You mean, a match should happen, right?  Otherwise, I'm afraid I see
>> > no sense in this logic: IMO identically looking text should match, or
>> > else users will kill us.
>> 
>> What about, say "a" and "а"? ;-)
>
> They don't look identical, and in any case, it should be clear they
> should never match, except when specifically searching for so-called
> "confusables".

Well, they look *exactly* identical on my Emacs.  I even C-x C-='d a few
times - still no difference.  And there are more pairs like this.

All this means it is way more complex than most people imagine.

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University