From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Entering Unicode characters Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 19:08:28 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83twmkkv16.fsf@gnu.org> <87a8nactib.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455062945 20290 80.91.229.3 (10 Feb 2016 00:09:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 00:09:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: johnw@gnu.org, eller.helmut@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alexis Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 10 01:08:57 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 1aTIKz-0001gf-EE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 01:08:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33794 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTIKy-0002P2-4l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 19:08:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53611) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTIKg-0002OM-Fv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 19:08:35 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTIKf-0002JG-NW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 19:08:34 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51153) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTIKa-0002E5-VQ; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 19:08:28 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aTIKa-0006be-1r; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 19:08:28 -0500 In-reply-to: <87a8nactib.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Alexis on Tue, 09 Feb 2016 17:01:00 +1100) 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:199646 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Additionally, there are lots of opportunities for bikeshedding > over the representations of certain characters. Take ☺, WHITE > SMILING FACE. Off the top of my head, i can imagine that being > represented by ':-)', but i frequently encounter people using ':)' > and '(-:' to represent the 'smiling face' concept instead. Just pick one. Since the representation will be used only in this one feature, the choice is not crucial. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.