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Re: Character folding in the pretest


From: Óscar Fuentes
Subject: Re: Character folding in the pretest
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2016 20:35:53 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> I see your point, but you are talking about accents all the time. In
>> Spanish `n' and `ñ' are different letters. `n' matching `ñ' is no
>> different than `p' matching `q'.
>
> Unicode disagrees:
>
>   M-: (get-char-code-property ?ñ 'decomposition) RET
>
>    => (110 771)
>
> 110 is 'n' and 771 is U+0303 NON-SPACING TILDE, a combining accent.

AFAIK Unicode doesn't mandate what the Spanish alphabet is.

I thought that the point of the feature was to provide searching with
support for character equivalence classes, which is very useful for the
case of Spanish (and other languages, I'm sure). But you are saying that
the feature is about how the characters are encoded by the computer and
not about how they are used by people. If that is true, it should be
disabled by default.




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