ASCII-folded search [was: Re: Upcoming loss of usability ...]

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Marcin Borkowski writes:

 > On the other hand, it would be great if we had an "ascii-folding"
 > option, making (some reasonable subset of) Unicode "equivalent" to
 > ASCII,

I believe Emacs already implements NFD normalization.  All you need
after that is to skip compose characters when searching.