Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding

[Wolfgang Jenkner]

On Mon, Feb 22 2016, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> > I don't think this is correct.  I think ö is a letter on its own in
>> > any language that uses it.  Which is why I don't see how it is
>> > different from ø.
>> 
>> In German dictionary collation order there's only a secondary difference
>> between o and ö [1]
>> 
>> &O<<ö<<<Ö
>
> Yes, I know.  But that doesn't mean ö is not a letter on its own.
>
> IOW, collation order says nothing about letter differences, IMO.

I think it does.  All objections to making char-fold search the default
come from people who expect that letters with a *primary* difference in
their locale should not be conflated.