From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David De La Harpe Golden Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: inputting characters by hexadigit Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:29:22 +0100 Message-ID: <48866D52.6060300@harpegolden.net> References: <868ww3vydn.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87myki6fqp.fsf@jurta.org> <87mykhz6tf.fsf@jurta.org> <87tzeokrku.fsf@jurta.org> <87tzeogih6.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <488020A4.4060601@harpegolden.net> <87vdz3p3om.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <4880D3E4.7050400@harpegolden.net> <87mykfow76.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87mykeohbf.fsf@jurta.org> <4884203C.2090305@harpegolden.net> <87y73t8qv3.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216769401 2642 80.91.229.12 (22 Jul 2008 23:30:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:30:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: James Cloos , Kenichi Handa , tzz@lifelogs.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier , "Stephen J. Turnbull" , Miles Bader To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 23 01:30:48 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 1KLRJd-0002Qi-Lm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:30:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57802 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLRIk-00038W-8x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:29:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLRIe-00036A-Q6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:29:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLRIc-00032Y-6i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:29:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35867 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLRIc-00032K-08 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:29:42 -0400 Original-Received: from harpegolden.net ([65.99.215.13]:37314) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KLRIX-0007q5-0c; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:29:37 -0400 Original-Received: from golden1.harpegolden.net (86-43-160-123.b-ras2.prp.dublin.eircom.net [86.43.160.123]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "David De La Harpe Golden", Issuer "David De La Harpe Golden Personal CA rev 3" (verified OK)) by harpegolden.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B26182C7; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:29:29 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080509) In-Reply-To: <87y73t8qv3.fsf@jurta.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 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:101263 Archived-At: Juri Linkov wrote: >> - it just strikes me people with non unicode locales (or files) >> are some of the most likely to want to enter characters by number from >> the relevant non-unicode charset... > > Couldn't they do that using the `C-x 8' prefix? > By number? Maybe I missed it- can they already? Otherwise entry would be dependent on there being a composition defined for the character, which is not a given. And if you're working with some once-in-a-blue-moon legacy charset, it might be much easier to look up the char code in a code table in front of you than learn the compositions, probably depending on how visually-minded you are. Of course they could if C-x 8 was expanded with a means to enter numeric codes. :-)