Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2016-02-13, at 18:45, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

>> From: Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
>> Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 18:15:35 +0100
>> 
>> >> What about, say "a" and "а"? ;-)
>> >
>> > They don't look identical, and in any case, it should be clear they
>> > should never match, except when specifically searching for so-called
>> > "confusables".
>> 
>> Well, they look *exactly* identical on my Emacs.  I even C-x C-='d a few
>> times - still no difference.  And there are more pairs like this.
>> 
>> All this means it is way more complex than most people imagine.
>
> Of course it is.  But the important thing is Emacs does TRT with this
> (and other) aspects of this complexity.

Of course you're right.  (Though there exist rare cases where looking
for one /should/ find the other one.)  What I wanted to say is that this
is a counterexample to this sentence:

> identically looking text should match, or else users will kill us.

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University