Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > Meanwhile, I don't think it has to be one or the other.
  > > It might be good to do both.

  > What specific user scenario do you want to solve by folding
  > Latin/Greek/Cyrillic confusables?

If I saw an 'a' in the buffer, I'd like searching for 'a' to find it.
Of course, I will search for a Latin 'a'.  If the char in the buffer
is a Cyrillic 'a', I want isearch to find that too.

  > It is when you are proof-reading text that it becomes important to
  > distinguish Latin and Cyrillic, to check that you don’t have a stray
  > Cyrillic letter within an English word, or vice-versa.

If I want to check which kind of a it is, I can do that with C-x =.
It would never occur to me to test "Is this really a Cyrillic a"
by searching for a Latin a and seeing if that finds it.



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