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Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding
From: |
Marcin Borkowski |
Subject: |
Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding |
Date: |
Sat, 13 Feb 2016 18:52:59 +0100 |
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mu4e 0.9.13; emacs 25.1.50.2 |
On 2016-02-13, at 18:45, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
>> Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 18:15:35 +0100
>>
>> >> What about, say "a" and "а"? ;-)
>> >
>> > They don't look identical, and in any case, it should be clear they
>> > should never match, except when specifically searching for so-called
>> > "confusables".
>>
>> Well, they look *exactly* identical on my Emacs. I even C-x C-='d a few
>> times - still no difference. And there are more pairs like this.
>>
>> All this means it is way more complex than most people imagine.
>
> Of course it is. But the important thing is Emacs does TRT with this
> (and other) aspects of this complexity.
Of course you're right. (Though there exist rare cases where looking
for one /should/ find the other one.) What I wanted to say is that this
is a counterexample to this sentence:
> identically looking text should match, or else users will kill us.
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, (continued)
- 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
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/13
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Marcin Borkowski, 2016/02/13
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/13
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Marcin Borkowski, 2016/02/13
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/13
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding,
Marcin Borkowski <=
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, andres . ramirez, 2016/02/13
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/14
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Juri Linkov, 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, 2016/02/14
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/02/14
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/15
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/02/15
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/15
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Elias Mårtenson, 2016/02/16