From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: entering Unicode characters as hex numbers not documented Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 22:43:20 +0200 Message-ID: <8564jkbo9j.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <20060601.092045.260111773.wl@gnu.org> <20060601.164819.28794160.wl@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1149194648 20203 80.91.229.2 (1 Jun 2006 20:44:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 20:44:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 01 22:44:06 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 1Flu1S-0006pJ-Hs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 22:44:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Flu1S-0006ym-0c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:44:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Flu1H-0006yH-U6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:43:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Flu1G-0006xi-Ld for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:43:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Flu1G-0006xd-Ge for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:43:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Flu7a-0004jg-A4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:50:22 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Flu1F-0006O7-NJ; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:43:49 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id CA6431C1346E; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 22:43:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 01 Jun 2006 23:32:12 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:55578 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:48:19 +0200 (CEST) >> From: Werner LEMBERG >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >> > Btw, why did you ask for an index entry `utf-8'? This function has >> > nothing to do with UTF-8. >> >> David has answered this. It's far easier IMHO to provide a `wrong' >> index entry than making Joe User learn the distinction between a >> character set and an encoding. > > We shouldn't cater only to the ignorant. It is the ignorant who need to consult a manual in the first place. > If I type "i utf-8 RET" and land on the page that describes > ucs-insert, I don't want to waste time looking for information that > just isn't there. The time to press `,' is not exactly taxing for a cognoscente. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum