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25.3; char-fold-search match for German eszett (ß)

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Scott Otterson <scotto <at> sharpleaf.org>
Cc: 30412 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30412: 25.3; char-fold-search match for German eszett (ß)
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 15:11:50 +0100

Scott Otterson <scotto <at> sharpleaf.org> writes:

> But there is no way to ß

As the Stackexchange user explains:

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The reason why it's absent is because char-fold-table is automatically generated
from the Unicode list of decomposable characters and Unicode believes that ß
does not "decompose" into s + s in the same way that á does decompose into a +
accute accent:

http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt

(search for: LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S).
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So I don't think we want to diverge from Unicode here?  So I'm closing
this bug report.  If others think this is something we should do, feel
free to reopen the bug report.

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