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Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding
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Lars Brinkhoff |
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Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding |
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Wed, 24 Feb 2016 07:40:20 +0100 |
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Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:
> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>> > As a Norwegian, I think o should match ö, but not ø.
>> Could you explain why that would be best for you?
> ø is a different letter from o in our 29 letter alphabet, and
> is a separate key on our keyboards. ö is just a variation of
> o.
Maybe you point about the keyboard can be a useful illustration
in the debate. (Maybe it has been brought up alread, in which
case I apologize.)
An English-speaking user would typically have a keyboard with
the letters a-z, so it can be quite handy to have o match ö and
ø, and n match ñ. Because it's somewhat inconvenient to type
those letters on such a keyboard.
Swedish-speaking users probably have keyboards with a separate
ö key, so it's easy to search for ö without any folding. (The
situation for ø is less clear; I can imagine that some Swedish
user would like it to be matched by both o and ö, or just o, or
just ö.)
Similarly, Spanish keyboards have a separate ñ key (I learned
that just now).
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, (continued)
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Yuri Khan, 2016/02/23
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/24
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/24
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Yuri Khan, 2016/02/23
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Marcin Borkowski, 2016/02/23
- 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, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/02/22
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/23
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/02/23
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding,
Lars Brinkhoff <=
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/24
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Elias Mårtenson, 2016/02/22
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/23
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/21
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/02/21
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/22
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, John Wiegley, 2016/02/22
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Per Starbäck, 2016/02/23
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, John Wiegley, 2016/02/23
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/21