Character folding in text editors

Janusz S. Bien jsbien at mimuw.edu.pl
Sat Feb 20 12:03:31 CST 2016


Quote/Cytat - Philippe Verdy <verdy_p at wanadoo.fr> (Sat 20 Feb 2016  
06:27:41 PM CET):

> Unless we have case folding tailored by language, you cannot do that based
> on the Unicode database alone.
>
> However CLDR provides tailored data about collation.
>
> From my point of view, it is just a matter or selecting the collation
> strength to use for searches using collation.

Exactly. The POSIX equivalent classes are defined by the locale collation.

Janusz

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