From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 9653@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9653: 24.0.50; `ucs-names' - Why all of the ("" . XXX) entries?
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 08:40:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd3ebmxby.fsf-monnier+INBOX@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1RBOaZ-0006gk-Um@fencepost.gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 05 Oct 2011 06:20:35 -0400")
>> I'll repeat that when one want to know what Unicode says about the
>> name of a character, the answer is "", not "<Unnamed>".
> Correct.
Doesn't matter. The point is that it's easier to turn nil into
something else (e.g. "") than to turn "" into something else (e.g. nil).
>> I'm not sure because there are multiple use-cases of
>> get-char-code-property, and nil is better only in some of them.
>> But, it's just "I'm not sure". If you are sure, as I wrote above,
>> I'll change it back.
I'm sure.
> what-cursor-position etc., where we will now need to display an empty
> string when we get nil.
Big deal: that's just an (or ... "").
And in any case no matter what the standard says, I'm pretty sure end
users would prefer to be told explicitly that a char doesn't have a name
rather than to see an empty field and wonder what that means.
Stefan
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[not found] ` <<tl7fwe65odg.fsf@m17n.org>
2011-10-02 16:36 ` bug#9653: 24.0.50; `ucs-names' - Why all of the ("" . XXX) entries? Drew Adams
2011-10-02 17:38 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-02 22:31 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-02 22:51 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-02 22:55 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-03 13:20 ` Jason Rumney
2011-10-03 13:56 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-03 14:00 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-02 18:09 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-10-03 1:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-03 4:23 ` Kenichi Handa
2011-10-03 8:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-04 1:14 ` Kenichi Handa
2011-10-03 13:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-04 1:59 ` Kenichi Handa
2011-10-04 12:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-06 3:53 ` Kevin Rodgers
2011-10-06 12:19 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-06 13:02 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-06 13:47 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-06 14:01 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-06 14:02 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-04 2:19 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-04 4:02 ` Kenichi Handa
2011-10-04 13:43 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-04 17:34 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-04 18:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-04 18:30 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-04 20:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-04 21:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-04 22:03 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-05 4:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-05 13:20 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-05 17:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-05 8:59 ` Kenichi Handa
2011-10-05 10:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-05 12:40 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-10-06 18:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-06 20:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-14 18:35 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-17 15:55 ` Drew Adams
2018-02-13 23:35 ` Drew Adams
2018-02-15 1:11 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-15 3:17 ` Drew Adams
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2012-02-17 15:25 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <7CCDEE21B0ED42B097600BB24692952A@us.oracle.com>
2012-02-17 23:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-18 0:05 ` Drew Adams
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2012-02-18 19:08 ` Drew Adams
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