From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: describe-char should display the character's Unicode name Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:41:08 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <868ww3vydn.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216143435 19317 80.91.229.12 (15 Jul 2008 17:37:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:37:15 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 15 19:38:03 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KIoTS-00078M-LL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:38:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51614 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KIoSa-00062o-Dy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:37:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KIoSR-0005zj-WB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:37:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KIoSQ-0005yE-Eq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:36:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36539 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KIoSQ-0005y3-4S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:36:58 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:35755 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KIoSP-0006vJ-OS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:36:58 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KIoSK-0003YW-GC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:36:52 +0000 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:36:52 +0000 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:36:52 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:F02qKo6pm4kcHk53eu7Mu2h8qpg= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:100739 Archived-At: `describe-char' currently displays the character, but in cases where the font is not capable of that, just the codepoint number is not very useful for the user. The character's Unicode name would be nice, but the user has to customize `describe-char-unidata-list'. At least the Unicode name ('name) should be in `describe-char-unidata-list' by default. Since `describe-char' is used rarely and the user really wants to know about the character, I think this is sensible. It could also be used for `what-cursor-position' which is similarly rarely used. Ted