> From: Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> > Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 00:19:19 +0100 > Cc: unicode Unicode Discussion <[email protected]> > > It should also be noted that some kind of "folding" described/desired by > Elias will likely fail his expectations, even when using collation data in > CLDR tailored per language.
I don't think the issue at hand is how to implement the "ultimate" character-folding feature. As I wrote elsewhere in this thread, Emacs has only made its first step on this long road; if the way to reach the final goal is still foggy even for the experts, then Emacs is in good company ;-) What matters for us at this stage is whether what has been implemented, however partial and incomplete, will be useful, and whether it is deemed to be useful enough to be turned on by default. Please keep in mind that Emacs currently doesn't even have language-dependent case tables, and its sorting commands use comparison by Unicode codepoints. (A function that compares text by locale-dependent collation rules was added only recently, and, since it relies on the underlying libc for collation order, you must change the locale to use the rules for another language.) So these capabilities are really only starting to emerge, and until there's a reliable way of determining the language of a given chunk of text, the solutions will continue to be clunky at best. We are not looking for the ultimate solutions, we are looking for useful evolutionary initial steps.
