GNU bug report logs - #17702
24.3; insert-char no longer inserts "bell" control character

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Message #11 received at 17702 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 17702 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17702: 24.3;
 insert-char no longer inserts "bell" control character
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?

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