Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding

[Wolfgang Jenkner]

On Sun, Feb 21 2016, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 00:58:37 +0800
>> From: Elias Mårtenson <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>, emacs-devel <address@hidden>
>> 
>> Now, other languages may use the character (in the Unicode sense) ö as a 
>> variation of o. In other words, o
>> with ¨ on top of it. For users of such languages ö is just a variation of o 
>> as we also have discussed before. On
>> the other hand, ø is not used as a variation of o in any language that I am 
>> aware of.
>
> I don't think this is correct.  I think ö is a letter on its own in
> any language that uses it.  Which is why I don't see how it is
> different from ø.

In German dictionary collation order there's only a secondary difference
between o and ö [1]

&O<<ö<<<Ö

[1] http://unicode.org/repos/cldr/trunk/common/collation/de.xml