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Re: Character folding in the pretest
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Marcin Borkowski |
Subject: |
Re: Character folding in the pretest |
Date: |
Mon, 08 Feb 2016 15:05:05 +0100 |
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mu4e 0.9.13; emacs 25.1.50.1 |
On 2016-02-05, at 07:01, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
>> How do you even define "optical similarities"?
>
> Basically the same as Eli has described: Base character plus
> diacritics, probably plus some basic shapes with `diacritics' that
> Unicode doesn't represent as composable: o → ø, l → ł, d → đ, etc.
Just as another datapoint in discussion: for me, searching for "l" and
finding "ł" seems a bit weird. (The opposite even more so.) I admit
this might be nice for people without access to Polish keyboard, and in
fact the most popular layout for Polish keyboard is one where "AltGr +
l" stands for "ł", but they are really different letters, and similarly
with other such cases:
"łata" = "patch"
"lata" = "flies" (verb, as in "something flies")
"kąt" = "angle"
"kat" = "hangman"
Etc., etc.
BTW, strangely enough, here isearching for "l" does /not/ find "ł", but
isearching for "a" (with character folding on) finds "ą". Whatever one
thinks about char folding, this is clearly a bug.
For Polish texts, I would rather turn char folding off.
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
- Re: Character folding in the pretest, (continued)
- Re: Character folding in the pretest, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/05
- Re: Character folding in the pretest, Filipp Gunbin, 2016/02/05
- Re: Character folding in the pretest, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/05
- Re: Character folding in the pretest, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/02/05
- Re: Character folding in the pretest, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/05
- Re: Character folding in the pretest, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/06
- Re: Character folding in the pretest, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/06
- Re: Character folding in the pretest,
Marcin Borkowski <=
- Re: Character folding in the pretest, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/08
- Re: Character folding in the pretest, Werner LEMBERG, 2016/02/08
- Re: Character folding in the pretest, Marcin Borkowski, 2016/02/08
- Re: Character folding in the pretest, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/08
- RE: Character folding in the pretest, Drew Adams, 2016/02/08
- Re: Character folding in the pretest, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/09
- RE: Character folding in the pretest, Drew Adams, 2016/02/09
- Re: Character folding in the pretest, Rasmus, 2016/02/06
- Re: Character folding in the pretest, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/04
- Re: Character folding in the pretest, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/02/04