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Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding |
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Tue, 23 Feb 2016 12:43:26 -0500 |
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> > Some plausible meanings are
> >
> > * Find that one and only that one.
> > * Treat it the same as specifying the base letter.
> >
> > There should be a user option to choose between those two (and maybe
> > some other behaviors for a non-base letter in the search string).
> We already have both options, and in particular, if a non-base letter
> appears explicitly in the search string, it will be searched
> literally, similarly to what we do with case-insensitive search.
Some users want that. Some, it appears, want searching for any letter
in the group to find any letter in the group. So I am suggesting we
offer both behaviors.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/21
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- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Wolfgang Jenkner, 2016/02/22
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/22
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Wolfgang Jenkner, 2016/02/22
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/22
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/22
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/22
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/23
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- RE: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Drew Adams, 2016/02/23
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- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/22
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/22
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Juri Linkov, 2016/02/22
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/23
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Juri Linkov, 2016/02/23
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