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Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding |
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Sun, 21 Feb 2016 07:44:45 -0500 |
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> > It seems to me that we're considering using the Unicode decomposition
> > rules for "variant detection" because it's what we have.
> No, we use decompositions because that's how equivalent strings are to
> be compared and mapped/folded.
Please let's drop the idea of determining the folding behavior
automatically from something in Unicide. It is too rigid.
Users want many different folding behaviors. Instead of insisting on
a particular set of equivalences, let's make it easy for users to
specify the foldings they want.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, (continued)
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/22
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/22
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Juri Linkov, 2016/02/22
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/21
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/02/21
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Andreas Schwab, 2016/02/22
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/02/22
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/22
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding,
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/21
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/22
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/22
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/20
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Elias Mårtenson, 2016/02/20
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/20
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Marcin Borkowski, 2016/02/19
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/02/19
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2016/02/19
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Elias Mårtenson, 2016/02/20