From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Single quotes in Info
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 11:35:20 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b07fb0dc-a15a-48d7-b1c7-c7a32f08a2c6@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83bnlhmn8j.fsf@gnu.org>
> Replacing existing classes would need modifications of the Unicode
> tables. Again, not easy, and should be.
I didn't say anything about replacing existing classes.
> > > E.g., why would you want to make 2 and ② equivalent, but not 2 and ²?
> >
> > Why not? Why not be able to define your own class that includes
> > 2 = ②, 3 = ③, etc., but not 2 = ² etc.?
>
> Because it makes no sense. This isn't some game we are playing here;
> these equivalences have deep meaning in some contexts. If they don't,
> they should not be used as a whole.
I give up. To me, it should be possible to allow user & use-case
choices - arbitrary equivalence classes, not just
only-predefined-correspondences-can-possibly-make-sense.
User-defined does not imply silly game-playing or any necessary lack
of "deep meaning".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-29 19:35 UTC|newest]
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2015-01-29 17:05 ` Single quotes in Info Drew Adams
2015-01-29 17:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-29 18:34 ` Drew Adams
2015-01-29 18:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-29 19:35 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2015-01-23 23:17 Marcin Borkowski
2015-01-23 23:53 ` Drew Adams
2015-01-24 17:01 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-01-24 8:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-24 15:11 ` Drew Adams
2015-01-24 15:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2015-01-24 15:54 ` Drew Adams
2015-01-24 16:45 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-01-24 17:00 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-01-27 16:27 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-27 17:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-27 18:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-27 19:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-27 19:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-27 19:49 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-27 20:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-28 3:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-28 21:42 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-28 22:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-29 14:31 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-27 18:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-27 18:39 ` Drew Adams
2015-01-27 20:24 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-27 21:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-28 1:15 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-28 15:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-28 16:10 ` Yuri Khan
2015-01-28 17:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-28 21:38 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-29 3:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-29 6:01 ` Drew Adams
2015-01-29 16:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-29 16:24 ` Drew Adams
2015-01-29 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2015-01-26 3:26 ` Unicode in emacs (was Single quotes in Info) Rusi
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