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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".



  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-29 19:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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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
     [not found]     ` <<838ugsrysw.fsf@gnu.org>
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
     [not found] ` <mailman.18484.1422057224.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-01-26  3:26   ` Unicode in emacs (was Single quotes in Info) Rusi

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