Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding

[Richard Stallman]

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  > The simplest change would be to have character-folding disabled by
  > default in some European locales whose users expressed objections to
  ...

Why not implement what I suggested?  Even though there are several
levels, in each case they boil down into a set of classes of characters,
each one either symmetric or asymmetric.  Once that calculation is done,
we can search for them with the existing mechanism.

  > That is, we
  > can't expect to make a single decision up front, but will need feedback from
  > users in every country that uses Emacs, in order to determine what the 
correct
  > settings are for each language?

Right.  Once we show it to people, we will start getting language-specific
definitions.

  > And what about a Swedish speaker living in America who uses en_US because
  > that's what 90% of his text is in, who then wants to search some Swedish 
text?
  > Is it the locale that determines it, or something specific to the nature of
  > the text in each buffer? And how would Emacs know?

Clearly we need to provide a way to set the language for each buffer.
We need this for several purposes, another one being the ispell dictionary.

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