GNU bug report logs - #28799
25.3; Description of Character-Folding Omits Key Functionality

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham <at> ntlworld.com>

Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 19:11:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 25.3

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 28799 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham <at> ntlworld.com>
Cc: 28799 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: Re: bug#28799: 25.3; Description of Character-Folding Omits Key
 Functionality
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 11:02:56 +0200
Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham <at> ntlworld.com> writes:

> (I am advised by Eli Zaretskii that this deficiency in the
> documentation should be dealt with by submitting a bug report using
> "M-x report-emacs-bug RET".)
>
> The EmacsWiki page https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CharacterFoldPlus
> gives no indication of the important capability of character folding to
> search for text in Unicode Normalisation Form D or Unicode
> Normalisation Form C using a search string expressed in the opposite
> normalisation.

The Emacs Wiki isn't run by the Emacs maintainers, I think?  And this is
about a package not included in Emacs, but written by Drew Adams (who
also wrote that Wiki page), so I this he's the correct recipient here,
so I'm Cc-ing him and closing this bug report.

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