From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Nikolai Weibull <now@disu.se>
Cc: p.stephani2@gmail.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, larsi@gnus.org,
johnw@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Character literals for Unicode (control) characters
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 19:10:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83oaafbrb3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADdV=Ms+0OcjSExkyfMB6EzuiuvQ2A60xoVS4WQuZ6yfK=UTtw@mail.gmail.com> (message from Nikolai Weibull on Tue, 15 Mar 2016 12:09:50 +0100)
> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 12:09:50 +0100
> From: Nikolai Weibull <now@disu.se>
> Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, p.stephani2@gmail.com, johnw@gnu.org,
> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, Emacs Developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>
> >> /* Bound on the length of a Unicode character name.
> >> As of Unicode 9.0.0 the maximum is 83, so this should be safe. */
> >> enum { UNICODE_CHARACTER_NAME_LENGTH_BOUND = 199 };
> >> ...
> >> char name[UNICODE_CHARACTER_NAME_LENGTH_BOUND + 1];
> >
> > Perhaps we should ask on the Unicode mailing list, I somehow remember
> > seeing a mandatory limit on the length of a character's name.
>
> No such limit is mentioned in section 4.8.
Indeed, there is none. However, this old discussion:
http://unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/Archives-Old/UML022/0845.html
http://unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/Archives-Old/UML022/0872.html
indicates that 128 should be good enough.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-15 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-03 5:47 Character literals for Unicode (control) characters Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-03 6:20 ` John Wiegley
2016-03-03 6:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-03 6:34 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-03 16:11 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-03 20:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-03 23:58 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-05 15:28 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-03-05 15:39 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-03-05 16:51 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-03-06 2:27 ` John Wiegley
2016-03-06 15:24 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-03-06 15:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-06 17:35 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-03-06 18:08 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-06 18:28 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-03-06 19:03 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-06 19:16 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-03-06 20:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-13 20:31 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-03-14 20:03 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-14 20:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-15 11:09 ` Nikolai Weibull
2016-03-15 17:10 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-03-16 8:16 ` Nikolai Weibull
2016-03-14 21:27 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-14 21:48 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-19 16:27 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-03-20 12:58 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-20 13:25 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-03-25 17:41 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-04-22 2:39 ` Paul Eggert
2016-04-22 7:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-22 8:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-22 9:39 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-04-22 10:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-25 17:48 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-05 16:35 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-05 17:12 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-05 17:53 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-05 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-05 18:34 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-05 18:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-05 19:08 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-05 22:52 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-06 15:49 ` Joost Kremers
2016-03-06 16:55 ` Drew Adams
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