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#23698
24.5; broken character name
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Reported by: ynyaaa <at> gmail.com
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2016 13:07:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 24.5
Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #11 received at 23698 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
> Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2016 18:44:56 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: 23698 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Displaying the list of Thai characters loads thai-util.el, which
> deliberately overwrites the names derived from the Unicode Character
> Database with its own variants. I'm CC'ing Handa-san, who added that
> code back in 2008, in the hope that he could tell why are we doing
> that, and whether this is still needed nowadays.
Actually, this code is much older: we have it since 1997, i.e. before
we started using the UCD for these purposes. So I think we can either
remove it or use a property that doesn't clash with the Unicode
standard properties.
Btw, the same problem exists with Lao (see lao-util.el).
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