This report identifies a set of character foldings, in other words, operations that map similar characters to a common target. Such operations are used to ignore certain distinctions between similar characters. The report also a provides an algorithm for applying these operations to searching. Status This document has been approved by the Unicode Technical Committee for public review as a Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report. Making this document available for public review does not imply endorsement by the Unicode Consortium. This is a draft document which may be updated, replaced, or superseded by other documents at any time. This is not a stable document; it is inappropriate to cite this document as other than a work in progress. Plea...