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Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding
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John Wiegley |
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Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding |
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Tue, 23 Feb 2016 08:29:19 -0800 |
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>>>>> Per Starbäck <address@hidden> writes:
> That is the view of what I understand to be the main developer of this
> feature, who tried to set the default to off. I think this should have been
> settled then, and think that Eli's view that it can be decided later is just
> wrong.
I agree that the pretest should be a pre-test, not a candidate run for
features that won't appear in the final release.
I think the hope was that pretesting would reveal that people want character
folding, and so it really was a candidate for the next release. But I'm
getting a string impression that character folding isn't quite ready for
prime-time as a default feature.
So right now, I'm looking for arguments that it *should* be made the default;
otherwise, it seems wise to me to let it wait until things have been hammered
out a lot more.
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- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, (continued)
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/22
- 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, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/02/22
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Elias Mårtenson, 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, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/22
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, John Wiegley, 2016/02/22
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Per Starbäck, 2016/02/23
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding,
John Wiegley <=
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/21
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Elias Mårtenson, 2016/02/21
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/21
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Ivan Andrus, 2016/02/21
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Wolfgang Jenkner, 2016/02/22
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/22
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Wolfgang Jenkner, 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, 2016/02/22
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/22