Re: diacritic-fold-search?

[B. T. Raven]

Here are some accent-folding data in a .js file that could probably be
put into some kind of data structure Emacs supports:

http://hex-machina.com/scripts/yui/3.3.0pr1/api/unicode-data-accentfold.js.html

See especially the link to the Unicode utilities at the last header comment.

Ed


> "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> 
>>> Is there a way to search ignoring diacritics, e.g. capturing "apres"
>>> both with and without an accent grave over the "e"? 
>>
>> Great question.  I don't think so, but I'm guessing that lots of users could
>> make good use of such a feature!
>>
>> Unless someone points out here that this is already possible, why don't
>> you submit an enhancement request for this feature (`M-x
>> report-emacs-bug' is also for enhancement requests): be able to toggle
>> Isearch distinguishing certain sets of similar chars (diacritics).
>>
>> There could be predefined sets of equivalence classes of chars (e.g.,
>> the same letter, modulo diacritical marks).  And users could be able to
>> customize these classes.
>>
>> Likewise, for punctuation chars that are very similar (in
>> purpose/visually), such as straight quotes and curly quotes, and
>> no-break hyphen, hyphen, and the various dashes.
>>
>> Likewise, for whitespace chars other than the standard SPC, TAB, etc.
>> For whitespace, I believe there might be some handling of additional
>> chars such as no-break space, but what's needed, here too, is a simple
>> way to toggle distinguishing them on/off.
>>
>> But your use case is the best one: be able to optionally ignore diacritical
>> marks when searching.
> 
> It may not be totally irrelevant to note that search engines make
> diacritic-agnostic search the default.  And some Web browsers (Chrome
> but not Firefox) do this for searches of a page they’re displaying.
> 
> /Lew
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