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Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding |
Date: |
Sat, 20 Feb 2016 10:09:45 +0200 |
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 09:44:26 +1100
>
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Thanks. But what does "respect the locale" mean, in practical terms?
> > A large portion of the characters that have some decomposition, and
> > thus will be folded when searching, belong to scripts that are not
> > related to any language or other locale-specific attribute. What do
> > you think should be done with them in the context of this feature?
>
> The locale says what language culture the user is from, and that's the
> important thing for most users. Not the language of the document or
> anything like that.
>
> Norwegian (like Danish and Swedish) has a 29 character alphabet, and
> there are keys on our keyboards for all those letters. Having any of
> those characters show up when searching for other characters is as weird
> for a Norwegian as it would be for an American to have any of their 26
> characters in their alphabet substitute for another.
>
> The Norwegian "extra" characters are æøå, of which only the latter is
> confused in Emacs by any other character by isearch today. I would
> imagine that an American would like ø to be folded with o, for instance,
> which it doesn't do.
>
> So as currently implemented, the feature is kinda both incomplete and
> too intrusive at the same time.
Are you saying that making the default depend on the locale would be
OK?
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, (continued)
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Marcin Borkowski, 2016/02/19
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/02/19
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2016/02/19
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Elias Mårtenson, 2016/02/20
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/20
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Elias Mårtenson, 2016/02/20
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/21
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/20
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Rasmus, 2016/02/24
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/25
- RE: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Artur Malabarba, 2016/02/13
- RE: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Drew Adams, 2016/02/13
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2016/02/12
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/02/12
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/13
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/13
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Andreas Schwab, 2016/02/13