From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Character literals for Unicode (control) characters Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2016 22:05:32 +0200 Message-ID: <83si03v0c3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87r3fsjenn.fsf@gnus.org> <56D8623F.6060806@cs.ucla.edu> <838u1vwqj9.fsf@gnu.org> <56DC7227.10708@cs.ucla.edu> <56DC7F18.8050103@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457294764 6038 80.91.229.3 (6 Mar 2016 20:06:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2016 20:06:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: larsi@gnus.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, johnw@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philipp Stephani Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 06 21:05:59 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1acew8-0007Jj-BP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2016 21:05:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51965 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1acew7-0005LQ-NP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2016 15:05:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34422) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1acevs-0005L5-5U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2016 15:05:44 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1acevo-00018v-6n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2016 15:05:40 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56452) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1acevi-00018B-Pd; Sun, 06 Mar 2016 15:05:30 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3965 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1acevh-0005Bc-Nd; Sun, 06 Mar 2016 15:05:30 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Philipp Stephani on Sun, 06 Mar 2016 19:16:37 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:201014 Archived-At: > From: Philipp Stephani > 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?