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Re: char equivalence classes in search - why not symmetric?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: char equivalence classes in search - why not symmetric? |
Date: |
Tue, 01 Sep 2015 21:15:26 +0300 |
> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 10:50:22 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
>
> > We are asking for matches that disregard the diacriticals
> > (and in case of ª also higher-order collation-order variation).
>
> No. You are asking for that only when you use a search pattern
> that does not use the diacriticals. When you search with á in
> the pattern you are NOT asking for matches that disregard the
> diacriticals. And why not?
Because á does include a diacritical. By specifying it, the user told
us the diacriticals are important, and shouldn't be disregarded.
> > It's what the Unicode Standard recommends, and IMO it makes a
> > lot of sense. See http://unicode.org/reports/tr10/#Searching.
>
> I don't see that, when reading that section. I do see that it
> explicitly calls out that behavior as an _option_:
>
> 8.2 Asymmetric Search
> Users often find asymmetric searching to be a useful option.
"Users often find asymmetric searching to be a useful option" sounds
like a recommendation to me.
- char equivalence classes in search - why not symmetric?, Drew Adams, 2015/09/01
- Re: char equivalence classes in search - why not symmetric?, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/09/01
- Re: char equivalence classes in search - why not symmetric?, Ulrich Mueller, 2015/09/08
- Re: char equivalence classes in search - why not symmetric?, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2015/09/08
- Re: char equivalence classes in search - why not symmetric?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2015/09/08
- RE: char equivalence classes in search - why not symmetric?, Drew Adams, 2015/09/08
- RE: char equivalence classes in search - why not symmetric?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2015/09/08
- RE: char equivalence classes in search - why not symmetric?, Drew Adams, 2015/09/08
- RE: char equivalence classes in search - why not symmetric?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2015/09/08