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Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 10:09:45 +0200

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 09:44:26 +1100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Thanks.  But what does "respect the locale" mean, in practical terms?
> > A large portion of the characters that have some decomposition, and
> > thus will be folded when searching, belong to scripts that are not
> > related to any language or other locale-specific attribute.  What do
> > you think should be done with them in the context of this feature?
> 
> The locale says what language culture the user is from, and that's the
> important thing for most users.  Not the language of the document or
> anything like that.
> 
> Norwegian (like Danish and Swedish) has a 29 character alphabet, and
> there are keys on our keyboards for all those letters.  Having any of
> those characters show up when searching for other characters is as weird
> for a Norwegian as it would be for an American to have any of their 26
> characters in their alphabet substitute for another.
> 
> The Norwegian "extra" characters are æøå, of which only the latter is
> confused in Emacs by any other character by isearch today.  I would
> imagine that an American would like ø to be folded with o, for instance,
> which it doesn't do.
> 
> So as currently implemented, the feature is kinda both incomplete and
> too intrusive at the same time.

Are you saying that making the default depend on the locale would be
OK?



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