Subject: Re: bug#17702: 24.3; insert-char no longer inserts "bell" control character

From: Ulrich Mueller <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 18:08:43 +0200

>>>>> On Thu, 05 Jun 2014, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> That's because U+1F541 has "BELL" as its 'name' property, whereas
> u+0007 has "BELL" as its 'old-name' property.  Emacs completion picks
> only one from these 2 duplicate candidates.

Is there any chance to get this fixed upstream (i.e. to have U+1F514
renamed in Unicode)? It seems obvious that they shouldn't assign
duplicate names, nor reuse names that have been in use for half a
century.

Also, if BELL is an "old-name", what is the new name of the U+0007
character then? (describe-char says <control> which doesn't look like
a proper name at all.)

> Perhaps some completion guru could find a way to allow multiple
> candidates with the same name in this case.

Does this mean that more such duplicates exist?