Subject: Re: bug#13041: 24.2; diacritic-fold-search

From: martin rudalics <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:34:26 +0100

> Emacs contains ucs-normailze package which provides various
 > normalization functions.  For instance,
 >
 > (require 'ucs-normalize)
 > (ucs-normalize-NFKD-string "Äffin") => "Äffin"
 >
 > Isn't it usable?

Actually, the function should do what we need.  But I have no idea how
to integrate it into a searching algorithm.  And when sorting, it seems
expensive for comparing buffer substrings.  Also, the use of a temporary
buffer for normalizing every single string makes its weight quite heavy.

In any case, I would probably steal the entire decomposition property
handling part from it.  So thanks a lot for this hint.

martin