bug#13041: 24.2; diacritic-fold-search

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <707786B35E94470FB727BCF7F3DDA41A@us.oracle.com>, "Drew Adams" 
<drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> This version of Martin's function (but respecting `case-fold-search') is 
> maybe a
> tiny bit simpler.  It could also be a bit slower because of `substring'
> returning a copy (vs just incrementing an offset).  It should also be checked
> for correctness - not really tested.  FWIW/HTH.

Emacs contains ucs-normailze package which provides various
normalization functions.  For instance,

(require 'ucs-normalize)
(ucs-normalize-NFKD-string "Äffin") => "Äffin"

Isn't it usable?

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Kenichi Handa
handa@gnu.org