Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> The above won't support finding decomposed sequences as in á (there
> are 2 characters here, they are just displayed as one).

They are displayed as two characters in this Emacs (current Ubuntu,
Emacs git master).  :-)

> I hope it's agreed that it is imperative for us to support finding
> such decomposed sequences (and we already do, under the current
> character-folding default).

Yes.

> It is, of course, possible to support this without normalization, by
> having all those combinations in the database you proposed.  But why
> should we bother creating and maintaining such a database (and
> updating it whenever a new Unicode version is released), when one is
> already available in data that we already read into Emacs?  So we
> currently implement this by using the decomposition information in the
> Unicode database.

If that database gives us all that, then I'm all for using that database
instead of creating our own, of course.  But why doesn't C-s o find ø,
and C-s l find ł then?  

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