Re: where does emacs23 store the info that was UnicodeData.txt?

["B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>]

Xah Lee wrote:
> in emacs 22, one can put in this unicode data file to emacs so that
> what-cursor-position with C-u can give full info about a char:
> 
> ; load unicode data; used by what-cursor-position for showing full
> unicode info
> (setq describe-char-unicodedata-file
>       (concat (file-name-directory
>                (or load-file-name buffer-file-name))
> "UnicodeData.txt" ))
> 
> by looking at the output, it appears to me emacs 23 now has the full
> info on unicode char without needing that file.
> 
> Is that true?
> 
> where does emacs get the data that was in UnicodeData.txt?
> 
> thanks.
> 
>   Xah
> ∑ http://xahlee.org/
> 
> ☄


The internal representation in ver. 23 is now Unicode, as far as I 
understand. On ver 22, ☄ would be reported as some "Emacs" byte sequence 
but on ver 23 it will give the actual U+XXXX code point for that glyph 
or character or whatever you call it.

Ed