From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Unicode character read representation
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:22:44 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090221.152244.41832092.hanche@math.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hc2n28a4.fsf@cyd.mit.edu>
+ Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>:
> From objects.texi in the Lisp manual:
>
> `\U00NNNNNN' represents the character whose Unicode code point is
> `U+NNNNNN', if such a character is supported by Emacs. If the
> corresponding character is not supported, Emacs signals an error.
>
> Are there any Unicode code points not supported by Emacs, or is this
> sentence obsolete?
I don't know the answer to your question, but it appears to me that
some code points SHOULD not be supported. The most famous example
being U+FFFE, which is why U+FEFF ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE is useful
as a byte-order mark. (But Emacs reads "\0000FFFE" just fine. A bug?)
- Harald
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-21 14:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-21 14:07 Unicode character read representation Chong Yidong
2009-02-21 14:22 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen [this message]
2009-02-24 11:14 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-02-24 22:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-26 7:28 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-02-26 15:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-27 0:51 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-02-27 1:45 ` Chong Yidong
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