From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Unicode character read representation Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:08:53 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87hc2n28a4.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1235661047 17247 80.91.229.12 (26 Feb 2009 15:10:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:10:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 26 16:12:03 2009 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 4.50) id 1LchtC-0003sK-3Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:11:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60011 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lchrr-0000ZU-4g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:09:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LchrE-0000Od-Kd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:09:04 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LchrC-0000Nk-Fl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:09:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50066 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LchrC-0000NX-6f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:09:02 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:56327 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LchrB-00008e-Ty for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:09:02 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgsFANM/pklFxKYM/2dsb2JhbACBb9gFhBEGg2Y X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.38,271,1233550800"; d="scan'208";a="34437614" Original-Received: from 69-196-166-12.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.166.12]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 26 Feb 2009 10:08:54 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 81E9A9114; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:08:53 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Kenichi Handa's message of "Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:28:31 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.90 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:109348 Archived-At: >> > Currently Emacs signals an error only for U+400000 and over, >> > and I'm not sure how strictly we should interprete >> > \U.. notation. >> I think the \U notation should only work for actual unicode chars. >> (assuming the \x{..} notation can be used for everything else). > For instance 0xFFFF is a valid Unicode code-point, but is > not a character. Should it be accepted or not? Yes, it should. But I think that \u3FFFFF shouldn't since it's not a valid unicode code point. Stefan