From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Utf8 symbols in completing-read completion item
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 09:18:18 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ilkdwvh1.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4XGLmAim4LQQWmpRmruCHvvQL6Z730ZyKbhyj6ROLA-mtnhQmokks9280IQ8NvoaVxm45A1DTFmonH6LMsz44gWWRiBC4CoBXXI3Ve0VRQQ=@protonmail.com> (message from Heime on Thu, 20 Oct 2022 22:00:31 +0000)
> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 22:00:31 +0000
> From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
> Cc: Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Nevertheless, my question is more focused on the best way to insert
> utf8 characters in COLLECTION. Is it acceptable to include utf8 characters
> in COLLECTION? From where does one copy the utf8 characters compatible with
> emacs?
To avoid confusion, please use the correct terminology. There's no
such thing as "utf8 characters"; UTF-8 is an _encoding_ used to
serialize Unicode character codepoints into a stream of bytes that can
then be written to a file or send via the network. IOW, UTF-8 is a
sequence of one or more bytes that represent a Unicode codepoint. The
correct terminology is "Unicode characters" or "non-ASCII characters"
(since you mean characters beyond the ASCII range). Unicode
character codepoints are 32-bit entities, whereas their UTF-8 encoding
can take between 1 and 4 bytes. Suggested reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
Also, _all_ Unicode characters are compatible with Emacs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-21 6:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-20 11:40 Utf8 symbols in completing-read completion item Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-10-20 21:02 ` Jean Louis
2022-10-20 22:00 ` Heime
2022-10-21 2:54 ` Jean Louis
2022-10-21 3:33 ` Heime
2022-10-21 3:43 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-21 4:16 ` Heime
2022-10-21 6:18 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-10-21 0:11 ` Michael Heerdegen
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