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Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding


From: Marcin Borkowski
Subject: Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 18:03:01 +0100
User-agent: mu4e 0.9.13; emacs 25.1.50.2

On 2016-02-13, at 17:47, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

>> From: Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 17:32:36 +0100
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> 
>> Please do not forget about use cases like mine.  I work for a journal,
>> and I do copyediting (among other things).  Situations where sloppy
>> authors write sometimes "Poincaré" and sometimes "Poincare" are not
>> rare.  Character folding is a blessing in such cases.
>
> But in a previous message you said:
>
>   For Polish texts, I would rather turn char folding off.
>
> How to reconcile that with what you say above?

Easily.  Different use-cases.  Usually I want to have it off, but when
I work in an article containing lots of foreign names *written not by
me*, I'd turn it on instantly.

Best,

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



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