Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding

[Richard Stallman]

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  > When looking for confusables, you don’t want to fold. You want to make
  > letters of different scripts stand out, e.g. by font-locking.

That might be a good feature, but the devil is in the details.
Would you like to discuss possible details here?

Meanwhile, I don't think it has to be one or the other.
It might be good to do both.

It might be difficult to design a convention to distinguish
Latin a and Cyrillic a with fonts _all the time_.  So here's an idea:
when you search for Latin a and it finds Cyrillic a, it could put a special
font or color (this tty has no fonts) on the Cyrillic a
to show it matched as a confusable.  Likewise, if you search for Cyrillic a
and it finds Latin a, it would put that same font on the Latin a.

This needs just one font or color -- to indicate a confusable in search.

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