From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: entering Unicode characters as hex numbers not documented Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2006 09:43:12 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <874pz26ce9.fsf@jurta.org> References: <20060601.092045.260111773.wl@gnu.org> <877j3zncg6.fsf@jurta.org> <20060602.155452.169230106.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 1149317324 9951 80.91.229.2 (3 Jun 2006 06:48:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 06:48:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, handa@m17n.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 03 08:48:43 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 1FmPwA-0006V1-JG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2006 08:48:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FmPwA-0005jY-4v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2006 02:48:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FmPuh-0004eb-SE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2006 02:47:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FmPue-0004bm-6q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2006 02:47:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FmPud-0004bc-VU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2006 02:47:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [217.25.160.1] (helo=relay1.binet.com.ua) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FmQ1C-0001YB-Ln; Sat, 03 Jun 2006 02:53:54 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by relay1.binet.com.ua (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1704277D46; Sat, 3 Jun 2006 09:47:02 +0300 (EEST) Original-Received: from mail.binet.com.ua (i19.dialup.binet.com.ua [217.25.161.83]) by relay1.binet.com.ua (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B8BC77D50; Sat, 3 Jun 2006 09:46:59 +0300 (EEST) Original-To: Werner LEMBERG In-Reply-To: <20060602.155452.169230106.wl@gnu.org> (Werner LEMBERG's message of "Fri, 02 Jun 2006 15:54:52 +0200 (CEST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAv at binet.com.ua 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:55655 Archived-At: >> > Input method: ucs (mode line indicator:U) >> > >> > Input as Unicode: U or u, where is a four-digit hex number. >> >> On a par with the recent proposal about \uXXXX and \UXXXXXXXX >> notation, shouldn't this input method differentiate between upper- >> and lower-case variants, and accept U with a 8-digit hex >> number? > > Hmm, 6 hex digits are sufficient to cover Unicode. I think that > within that input encoding, *any* number of 1-6 hex digits should be > valid. If you mean that any non-digit character should terminate the input like in most other multi-character input methods, then I agree. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/