Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> Elias and Lars, what do you two think searching for o should match?
> Should it match ö and ø, or not?

As a Norwegian, I think o should match ö, but not ø.  For Americans, it
should match both.

> One way to handle each class is the asymnetric way: searching for the base
> character matches all of them, but searching for one of the other character
> matches only itself.
>
> In Swedish, ö could be the base character and ø a variant.
> In Danish, ø could be the base character and ö the variant.
>
> Would each of you be happy with that mode?

Hm...  I would personally be surprised if any of these characters
matched the other characters, but that may be just me.  Others seem to
find that helpful, apparently.

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