From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#13177: 24.3.50; doc of `read-char-by-name' Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 08:23:58 -0800 Message-ID: References: <4AF22BD1F38E4AF2A650D1F537B47069@us.oracle.com> <8762431shy.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <836243mh6g.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1355588708 21363 80.91.229.3 (15 Dec 2012 16:25:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 16:25:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 13177@debbugs.gnu.org To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 15 17:25:22 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TjuYE-0006kn-59 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 17:25:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55305 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TjuY0-0001wW-Gz for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:25:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49851) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TjuXr-0001tY-NM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:25:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TjuXq-0002ac-R7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:24:59 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:34024) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TjuXq-0002aX-OA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:24:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TjuYs-0000ex-FA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:26:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: "Drew Adams" Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 16:26:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 13177 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 13177-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B13177.13555887152477 (code B ref 13177); Sat, 15 Dec 2012 16:26:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 13177) by debbugs.gnu.org; 15 Dec 2012 16:25:15 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44275 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TjuY7-0000du-7w for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:25:15 -0500 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:24444) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TjuY5-0000dm-2C for 13177@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:25:14 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet21.oracle.com (acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id qBFGO6wb027255 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 15 Dec 2012 16:24:07 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt358.oracle.com (acsmt358.oracle.com [141.146.40.158]) by acsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id qBFGO6rv010556 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 15 Dec 2012 16:24:06 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt119.oracle.com (abhmt119.oracle.com [141.146.116.71]) by acsmt358.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id qBFGO5SN017743; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:24:05 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/71.202.147.44) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 08:24:05 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <836243mh6g.fsf@gnu.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Thread-Index: Ac3a3omdakkYkBdWT0WSesXGPDIGUAAAc2pA X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:68574 Archived-At: > #xNNNNN can also specify 8-bit characters whose codepoints are outside > Unicode. > > I have no idea whether this distinction is relevant to this function, > but since it talks about "Unicode code points", people who deal with > the documentation need to be aware of this subtlety. Precisely. Is `read-char-by-name' intended to just return such a non code-point number or should it always return a Unicode char as it name suggests? Once we know what the intention is, if the code doesn't fit it we can change the code. Once we know what the correct code does, we can fit the doc to it.