Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > It seems to me that we're considering using the Unicode decomposition
  > > rules for "variant detection" because it's what we have.

  > No, we use decompositions because that's how equivalent strings are to
  > be compared and mapped/folded.

Please let's drop the idea of determining the folding behavior
automatically from something in Unicide.  It is too rigid.

Users want many different folding behaviors.  Instead of insisting on
a particular set of equivalences, let's make it easy for users to
specify the foldings they want.

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