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25.1; C-x = for Unicode

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Message #117 received at 24902 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Ulrich Windl" <Ulrich.Windl <at> rz.uni-regensburg.de>
To: <mattiase <at> acm.org>,"Robert Pluim" <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 24902 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org
Subject: Antw: [EXT] Re: bug#24902: 25.1; C‑x = for Unicode
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 10:12:21 +0100

>>> Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org> schrieb am 26.01.2022 um 18:02 in
Nachricht <537072BC-F9DF-4B7B-BA88-02320A731013 <at> acm.org>:
> 26 jan. 2022 kl. 14.48 skrev Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>:
> 
>> U+006F 'LATIN SMALL LETTER O' point=2938 of 2942 col=52
> 
> The single quotes are mostly noise; a comma after the name seems to work 
> just as well and is less intrusive (and shorter). The syntax "U+1234 NAME IN

> CAPS" is Unicode standard and the user is likely to have encountered it 
> before.

I don't know much about the Unicode standard, but in BabelPad (Windows
application) some character descriptions have an extra part separated with a
colon, like this:
"U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN : paragraph sign"

So maybe the quotes may be justified.

> 
> Here is an updated patch.

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