> On Nov 7, 2019, at 18:57, Stephen Berman wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 18:43:40 +0900 Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: > >> A while ago the biggest number that evaluated to a character (that I could not >> display) was 1114111 (evaluated to "?􏿿 "). >> >> Now, I can only go up to 127 (#o177, #x7f, ?\C-?) and 128 evaluates to (#o200, >> #x80) which looks like the ASCII character set, but I was under the impression >> that Emacs had its own character set... >> >> What's going on here ? > > This: > > eval-expression-print-maximum-character is a variable defined in ‘simple.el’. > Its value is 127 > > You can customize this variable. > > > This variable was introduced, or its default value was changed, in > version 26.1 of Emacs. > Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 26.1. Thank you very much. What's the rationale behind this change ? I find that's a bit silly to limit the character set range available with this evaluation. Anybody knows ? Jean-Christophe Helary ----------------------------------------------- http://mac4translators.blogspot.com @brandelune