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24.3; insert-char no longer inserts "bell" control character

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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 17702 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17702: 24.3; insert-char no longer inserts "bell" control character
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 23:26:18 +0200

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

> I wouldn't hold my breath. They've deliberately removed names of the
> control characters, as explained clearly in the Unicode Standard.
> But you are welcome to ask a question on the Unicode mailing list
> unicode <at> unicode.org.

I've browsed around and found
http://www.unicode.org/Public/6.3.0/ucd/NameAliases.txt which says:

# Note that no formal name alias for the ISO 6429 "BELL" is
# provided for U+0007, because of the existing name collision
# with U+1F514 BELL.

So it seems that they are aware of the problem already.


>>>>> On Thu, 5 Jun 2014, Josh  wrote:

> Is there a reason you can't use `C-q C-g' to insert this character?

Sure, it's not unusual that a task can be performed in Emacs in
several different ways. Is this an excuse for one of them being
imperfect?

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