From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Entering Unicode characters Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 18:07:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <> <<83twmkkv16.fsf@gnu.org> > < > < > < > < > < > <<87a8nactib.fsf@gmail.com> > <> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455070098 24917 80.91.229.3 (10 Feb 2016 02:08:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 02:08:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: flexibeast@gmail.com, johnw@gnu.org, eller.helmut@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org, Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 10 03:08:06 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 1aTKCL-0001KV-Au for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 03:08:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34543 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTKCK-0004CE-IZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 21:08:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38557) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTKC5-0004C4-26 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 21:07:50 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTKC0-00010k-VN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 21:07:48 -0500 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:34646) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTKC0-0000zH-Nm; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 21:07:44 -0500 Original-Received: from userv0022.oracle.com (userv0022.oracle.com [156.151.31.74]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id u1A27g5Y011872 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 10 Feb 2016 02:07:42 GMT Original-Received: from aserv0121.oracle.com (aserv0121.oracle.com [141.146.126.235]) by userv0022.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u1A27fRU007799 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Wed, 10 Feb 2016 02:07:42 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0010.oracle.com (abhmp0010.oracle.com [141.146.116.16]) by aserv0121.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u1A27fUD007537; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 02:07:41 GMT In-Reply-To: <> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9 (901082) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: userv0022.oracle.com [156.151.31.74] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 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:199658 Archived-At: > > Next up: Unicode emoji. > > http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html >=20 > We can probably find emoticons to stand for some of them. > And if we can't...so what? >=20 > I suggested that it would be good to come up with short ASCII visual > representations of SOME of these Unicode characters _for ubb-browse_. >=20 > You seem to be trying to prove we can't do this for ALL the Unicode > characters, but I never said we could do them all. Doing it for just > some characters will be useful. I was kidding about emoji. (You might be confusing me with someone else who spoke against your idea of ASCII representations.)