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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, johnw@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Character literals for Unicode (control) characters
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2016 22:05:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83si03v0c3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAArVCkSLbOO2RH1+VC_MK7aHKuy52jHAnnf8rcednqDPiq=wqQ@mail.gmail.com> (message from Philipp Stephani on Sun, 06 Mar 2016 19:16:37 +0000)

> From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2016 19:16:37 +0000
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org, johnw@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> This is probably for practical purposes (no point in showing thousands of "CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-xyz"
> completions). For a character escape these considerations don't apply, and it would be very surprising and
> confusing to not accept all characters.

The only characters that ucs-names omits are CJK ideographs, whose
codepoints can be computed from the name algorithmically.  All the
others are non-characters, right?  So why it won't be a good idea to
simply use ucs-names?



  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-06 20:05 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 [this message]
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
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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