Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > If I saw an 'a' in the buffer, I'd like searching for 'a' to find it.
  > > Of course, I will search for a Latin 'a'.  If the char in the buffer
  > > is a Cyrillic 'a', I want isearch to find that too.

  > You don’t usually see an “а” in isolation. In normal text, you see at
  > least a word, and usually a sentence. Those give you enough context to
  > know it’s not a Latin “a”.

Often that is true.  Nonetheless, I stand by what I said:
I would rather have searching for Latin a match all a's.

  > Neither to me, though I might use a regexp isearch for [a-z] to
  > highlight all Latin letters in a paragraph where I expect none. It
  > would be confusing and misleading if it highlighted
  > [АВЕКМНОРСТХЬавеморстух].

Folding doesn't operate on [...], right?

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