From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: make-char 'symbol weirdness Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 20:38:59 +0300 Message-ID: <83mxwfva6k.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8739y87329.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273041885 8625 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2010 06:44:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 06:44:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Sam Steingold Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 05 08:44:44 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9YLb-0007Rx-Sy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 08:44:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46975 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9YB5-0003v0-V7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 02:33:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O9M5U-0000lu-5I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 13:39:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57870 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9M5S-0000kQ-Sh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 13:39:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9M5Q-0003Aq-HG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 13:39:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:54131) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9M5Q-0003AQ-9F; Tue, 04 May 2010 13:39:12 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L1W00H00P0J8T00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Tue, 04 May 2010 20:38:54 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.59.39]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L1W00F45P0RCN60@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Tue, 04 May 2010 20:38:52 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:124519 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 09:57:10 -0400 > From: Sam Steingold > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > On 5/3/10, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > Sam Steingold writes: > > > GNU Emacs 24.0.50.10 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.4) > > > of 2010-05-03 > > > > > > a->alpha : (make-char 'symbol 97) ==> 945 > > > b->beta : (make-char 'symbol 98) ==> 946 > > > c->chi ??? (make-char 'symbol 99) ==> 967 ???!!! > > > d->delta: (make-char 'symbol 100) ==>948 > > > > > > why?? > > > > Because gamma, not chi, is the third letter of the Greek alphabet? > > yes, but gamma is 947, and chi is 967, so _why_ is c mapped to chi and > not gamma?! Hint #1: what is g mapped to? Hint #2: you _are_ aware that historically, c and g was the same letter?