> From: Philippe Verdy <verd...@wanadoo.fr> > Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 20:31:07 +0100 > Cc: Julian Bradfield <jcb+unic...@inf.ed.ac.uk>, > unicode Unicode Discussion <unicode@unicode.org> > > The decompositions are not needed for plain text searches, that can use the > collation data (with the collation data, you can unify at the primary level > differences such as capitalisation and ignore diacritics, or transform some > base groups of letters into a single entry, or make some significant primary > difference when there are diacritics (for example in German equating 'ae' and > 'ä' at the primary level).
Sorry, I disagree. First, collation data is overkill for search, since the order information is not required, so the weights are simply wasting storage. Second, people do want to find, e.g., "²" when they search for "2" etc. I'm not saying that they _always_ want that, but sometimes they do. There's no reason a sophisticated text editor shouldn't support such a feature, under user control. _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list Unicode@unicode.org http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
