Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
>       address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 14:53:21 -0500
> 
>   > 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.

I will have to see the code, but I expect your suggestion to be much
more complex, and thus unsuitable for the release branch.  It's okay
to do that on master, but John asked his questions wrt the release
branch.

>   > 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.

These are definitely out for the release branch.