Eli Zaretskii [2023-07-08 18:38 +0300] wrote:

>> From: Basil Contovounesios <contovob@tcd.ie>
>> Cc: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>,  eggert@cs.ucla.edu,
>>   emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2023 16:27:43 +0100
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii [2023-07-08 11:49 +0300] wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks, but I think it's too early in the build to use \N{name} syntax:
>
> Thanks, I've somehow missed that.  But why \uNNNN instead of just the
> character itself?

I just followed the example of characters.el and mule-conf.el, but...

> *.el files are always UTF-8 encoded, so there's no need to use only
> ASCII.

...I see cyrillic.el explicitly declares -*- coding: utf-8 -*-.
Is this what you had in mind?