From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kenichi Handa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 22:16:36 +0900 Message-ID: References: <17491.34779.959316.484740@parhasard.net> <17492.29148.246942.842300@parhasard.net> <8764kkawsf.fsf@jurta.org> <87vesi6nh1.fsf@jurta.org> <878xp8g2a9.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1147353482 19887 80.91.229.2 (11 May 2006 13:18:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 13:18:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kehoea@parhasard.net, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 11 15:17:58 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 1FeB3E-00068n-91 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 May 2006 15:17:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FeB3D-0007X8-O6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 May 2006 09:17:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FeB2y-0007W9-OO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 May 2006 09:17:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FeB2x-0007V7-2d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 May 2006 09:17:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FeB2w-0007V2-Ts for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 May 2006 09:17:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.47.44.130] (helo=tsukuba.m17n.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FeB4Q-0000VF-Lf; Thu, 11 May 2006 09:19:11 -0400 Original-Received: from nfs.m17n.org (nfs.m17n.org [192.47.44.7]) by tsukuba.m17n.org (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3sarge1) with ESMTP id k4BDHYIR010576; Thu, 11 May 2006 22:17:34 +0900 Original-Received: from etlken (etlken.m17n.org [192.47.44.125]) by nfs.m17n.org (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3sarge1) with ESMTP id k4BDHYIc020525; Thu, 11 May 2006 22:17:34 +0900 Original-Received: from handa by etlken with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1FeB1w-0001Ni-00; Thu, 11 May 2006 22:16:36 +0900 Original-To: Juri Linkov In-reply-to: <878xp8g2a9.fsf@jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Thu, 11 May 2006 15:03:18 +0300) User-Agent: SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.2 Emacs/22.0.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) 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:54262 Archived-At: In article <878xp8g2a9.fsf@jurta.org>, Juri Linkov writes: >> Also it would be good to support a syntax for named Unicode characters. >> Common Lisp has the syntax #\euro_sign, and Perl - \N{EURO SIGN}. >> >> I tend to think we should not do this now. >> Does Emacs have a table of these names? > The variable `describe-char-unicodedata-file' points to the file > `UnicodeData.txt' not distributed currently with Emacs. This could be > done in the emacs-unicode branch. I think this question should be > considered after the release. Actually, emacs-unicode already contains various data (including names) extracted from UnicodeData.txt, and get-char-code-property is extended to information about a character that is provided by UnicodeData.txt. --- Kenichi Handa handa@m17n.org