Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Wolfgang Jenkner <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 17:56:19 +0100
> 
> 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.

I understand, and I didn't try to argue against that.  The sub-thread
about being a "letter on its own" is just a tangent, not directly
related to the issue at hand.