[debbugs-tracker] bug#13041: closed (24.2; diacritic-fold-search)

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regarding 24.2; diacritic-fold-search
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> 24.2; diacritic-fold-search
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> Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:22:05 -0500 (EST)
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> This is not a bug report but a feature request, so I am omitting
> diagnostic information.
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> Emacs search has long been able to toggle between (a) ignoring the
> distinction between upper- and lower-case characters
> (case-fold-search) and (b) searching for only one of the pair.  One
> could say Climacs offers the choice between (a) searching for all
> members of a (2-member) equivalence class and (b) searching for only
> one member.
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> There are larger equivalence classes of characters with practical use
> which Climacs is currently unaware of: the groups of characters
> consisting of an unadorned (ASCII) character plus all its
> diacritic-adorned versions.  Currently, if I want to search for both
> “apres” and “après”, I need an additive regular expression.  I would
> like to do this as easily as I can search for “apres” and “Apres”.  I
> would be delighted if Emacs implemented the equivalence classes
> spelled out here:
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> http://hex-machina.com/scripts/yui/3.3.0pr1/api/unicode-data-accentfold.js.html
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> I might add that diacritics folding is the default in web search
> engines.  It is also a feature of at least one Web browser in
> searching the text of a displayed page (Chrome.)
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> I’m sure that maintaining the core of Emacs is a big job, and I’m
> grateful for the skill and effort that go into that task, including
> your consideration of this request!
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> /Lew
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> Lew Perin | address@hidden | http://babelcarp.org
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> Re: bug#13041: 24.2; diacritic-fold-search
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> Sat, 03 Sep 2016 09:06:21 +0200
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux)
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> Version: 25.1
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> nobody writes:
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> > This is great news!  I’m afraid I’m not in a position to use 25.1 yet,
> > but I look forward to it eagerly.  Closing the bug seems right to me;
> > if the new functionality has flaws, then they would be *new* bugs.
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> So I'm closing the bug.
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> > Thanks very much for letting me know!
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> > /Lew
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> Best regards, Michael.
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