From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 23:04:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: <17491.34779.959316.484740@parhasard.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1146366449 4642 80.91.229.2 (30 Apr 2006 03:07:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 03:07:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 30 05:07:28 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fa2HP-0001KX-5B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 05:07:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fa2HO-0008C0-NX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 23:07:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fa2EW-0006lo-Gi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 23:04:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fa2EW-0006lA-09 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 23:04:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fa2EV-0006ko-OE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 23:04:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Fa2I0-0005In-HD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 23:08:04 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Fa2EV-0003pC-1U; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 23:04:27 -0400 Original-To: Aidan Kehoe In-reply-to: <17491.34779.959316.484740@parhasard.net> (message from Aidan Kehoe on Sat, 29 Apr 2006 17:35:55 +0200) 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:53636 Archived-At: + Emacs provides a syntax for specifying characters by their Unicode code +points. @samp{?\uABCD} These are Lisp expressions, right? So they should use @code, not @samp. will give you an Emacs character that maps to Please stick to present tense: change "will give you an" to "represents the". +text files, Unicode-oriented fonts, etc.) There is a slightly different You need a period at the end of that sentence. The period inside the parentheses does not count for this. +syntax for specifying characters with code points above @samp{#xFFFF}; +@samp{\U00ABCDEF} will give you an Emacs character that maps to the code What is the reason for needing both \u and \U, and the difference? Why not use a syntax like that of \x?