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Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding
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Adrian . B . Robert |
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Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding |
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Wed, 10 Feb 2016 15:52:49 +0200 |
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Artur Malabarba <address@hidden> writes:
> Char folding is primarily about being able to easily search for
> characters that you can't easily type. It also has secondary uses,
> like searching when you're not even sure which character you want to
> search for, but I'm focusing on the first.
Thank you. I wish there were more posting of actual use cases like this in
the present discussion. I feel like a lot of the posts so far are along the
lines of "Because X, I don't want this to be the *default*", which it isn't
going to be anyway, and very few are about "I want character folding so I can
*do* Y." So far I've seen:
1) Easily search for not-easily typable characters, by casting a wide net.
2) Search for composed and decomposed variants of the same character.
Note that these would be best served by two *different* features. #2 by true
unicode-composition folding, and #1 by broader "optical" classes that are
roughly but not exactly captured by searching for any character whose
decomposition contains the template.
Are there any other things that people *would like* to do with character
folding (besides turn it off if it got in their way)?
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, (continued)
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/18
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/18
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Marcin Borkowski, 2016/02/13
- Content navigation (was: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding), Óscar Fuentes, 2016/02/13
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Marcin Borkowski, 2016/02/13
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/13
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Marcin Borkowski, 2016/02/13
Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding,
Adrian . B . Robert <=
Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Marcin Borkowski, 2016/02/24