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: Input method or help feature needed Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:01:05 -0500 Message-ID: References: <8339nmwjf2.fsf@gnu.org> <87aahu30d5.fsf@escher.home> <8362sgv4zv.fsf@gnu.org> <83oc67tkyb.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298235718 6151 80.91.229.12 (20 Feb 2011 21:01:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 21:01:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen.berman@gmx.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 20 22:01:53 2011 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 1PrGPh-0001Dm-KN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:01:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49144 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PrGPg-0006I3-PP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:01:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33854 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PrGOw-0005wz-PF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:01:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PrGOv-00054v-N2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:01:06 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:55730) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PrGOv-00054o-L9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:01:05 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PrGOv-0000JW-1u; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:01:05 -0500 In-reply-to: <83oc67tkyb.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sun, 20 Feb 2011 05:59:40 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:136297 Archived-At: I'd try unicode-bmp. Maybe we should have it at the front of the list. That might be an improvement. But we really should design an easy and natural interface for people to choose and use unicode characters. We should not urge users to use other features that were designed for different purposes. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org