From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Werner LEMBERG Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: entering Unicode characters as hex numbers not documented Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:46:50 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <20060601.164650.112290796.wl@gnu.org> References: <20060601.092045.260111773.wl@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1149191046 6444 80.91.229.2 (1 Jun 2006 19:44:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 19:44:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 01 21:44:02 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Flt5L-0006a4-NW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 21:44:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Flt5L-0000OF-8g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 15:43:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Flt3u-00087l-Uy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 15:42:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Flt3s-00086g-OV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 15:42:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Flt3s-00086S-GA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 15:42:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.177] (helo=moutng.kundenserver.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FltA5-00006Q-PL; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 15:48:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [62.143.170.3] (helo=localhost) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu9) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0ML2xA-1Flt3h49AY-0000m9; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 21:42:18 +0200 Original-To: eliz@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Mew version 5.0.51 on Emacs 22.0.50.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:2dc398bc694a1e60948148ba0a42c0da X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:55572 Archived-At: > > Please add documentation and index entries (for `unicode', `ucs', > > `utf-8', etc.) for the function `ucs-insert'! IMHO this is a very > > essential function, and after the release it will become quite > > important, I think. > > Evidently, someone thinks that it's not worth documenting, since it is > marked as such in etc/NEWS. Hmmm. I don't understand this decision. How shall Joe User find this function? Even I who am quite accustomed to the Emacs source files had to search for more than 10 minutes because the function's name neither has `unicode' nor `code' nor `character' in its name, and an `apropos unicode' doesn't give anything useful. I didn't give up because I *knew* that there is such a function but forgot its name. Additionally, there are a lot of Unicode characters which aren't accessible with quial input methods. How do you enter such characters then if not with `ucs-insert'? Werner