Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding

[Richard Stallman]

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  > But you are Danish, are you not? As such, I would have thought that when
  > you search for ø, you would want to find a Swedish ö? (this is the inverse
  > of the natural Swedish behaviour).

Elias and Lars, what do you two think searching for o should match?
Should it match ö and ø, or not?

IF you want o not to match ö and ø, then you want ö and ø to be a
class by themselves.

One way to handle each class is the asymnetric way: searching for the base
character matches all of them, but searching for one of the other character
matches only itself.

In Swedish, ö could be the base character and ø a variant.
In Danish, ø could be the base character and ö the variant.

Would each of you be happy with that mode?

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