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Re: Character folding in the pretest


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Character folding in the pretest
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2016 21:36:45 +0200

> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 11:25:41 -0800
> 
> On 02/04/2016 09:45 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > We should instead cater to users who search text they_can_  read.
> 
> This depends on what one means by "read". I can "read" Swedish in the 
> sense that I know where the word boundaries are and have some idea of 
> how they're pronounced. I can also "read" Belarusian in the sense that I 
> know Cyrillic and a bit of Russian and can follow Belarusian better than 
> Swedish, though I easily get lost. In both cases, I'd prefer 
> Unicode-type case folding even though it's "wrong" to ignore diacritics 
> in the native languages.

Then the current defaults are definitely for you, I think.



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