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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 #25 received at 23698-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
> From: handa <handa <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: ynyaaa <at> gmail.com, 23698 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2016 23:32:21 +0900
>
> In article <83y46jtzbb.fsf <at> gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> Long ago, I discussed with Thai/Lao people about how to support their
> languages in Mule. At that time, as I can't speak those languages, we
> refer each character by name in the discussion. And, for debugging the
> support code, name property was very useful. That's the reason for
> those properties. Now, I think we can get rid them.
OK, thanks. So I guess Paul's change did TRT, and we can close this
bug report.
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