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Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding
From: |
Óscar Fuentes |
Subject: |
Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding |
Date: |
Thu, 11 Feb 2016 02:37:07 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:
>> I have no idea, which is why this feature will be off by default until I
>> feel confident it won't get in anyone's way.
>
> How regrettable would be to disable such a useful feature. I'm using
> char-folding every day a dozen times on multiple languages/scripts in
> Chromium, and it's a major inconvenience not to be able to use the same
> in Emacs.
Is there something that prevents you from enabling the feature on your
setup?
> Let's not hide/postpone this feature due to an inability to
> reach a consensus on the default values - we could use the same defaults
> as in Chromium.
Just checked. Chromium has the n/ñ bug. Chrome doesn't.
> These are sane defaults based on Unicode standards
Unicode doesn't have a saying on what is correct on any given language.
> and used by millions users.
Do you have statistics about Chromium users who take advantage of
character folding?
> I haven't noticed any annoying matching by the
> default rules despite not being able to change hard-coded rules or disable
> char-folding.
Possibly the languagues you use do not collide with naïve character
composition rules, or you ignore them or simply don't care about such
rules.
> Unlike Chromium, Emacs is more extensible and customizable,
> thus we urgently need to provide customization, so everyone could easily
> add/remove char-folding rules to/from the default set.
It is reasonable to expect from a serious text editor that when you
search for a letter it finds that letter, not unrelated letters. With
the default configuration, of course.
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, (continued)
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Mark Oteiza, 2016/02/09
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/10
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Artur Malabarba, 2016/02/10
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/10
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Per Starbäck, 2016/02/12
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/13
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Markus Triska, 2016/02/13
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/13
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, joakim, 2016/02/13
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Juri Linkov, 2016/02/10
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding,
Óscar Fuentes <=
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Juri Linkov, 2016/02/11
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/02/11
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/12
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/02/12
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/12
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/02/12
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Joost Kremers, 2016/02/12
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/02/12
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/12
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/02/12