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25.1; C-x = for Unicode

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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: "Ulrich Windl" <Ulrich.Windl <at> rz.uni-regensburg.de>
Cc: mattiase <at> acm.org, 24902 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org
Subject: bug#24902: Antw: [EXT] Re: bug#24902: 25.1; C‑x = for Unicode
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 10:43:18 +0100

>>>>> On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 10:12:21 +0100, "Ulrich Windl" <Ulrich.Windl <at> rz.uni-regensburg.de> said:

    >>>> Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org> schrieb am 26.01.2022 um 18:02 in
    Ulrich> 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.

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

    Ulrich> So maybe the quotes may be justified.

Those are codepoints which have both a 'name' and an 'old-name'.
'C-u C-x =' will show both by default, I donʼt think itʼs necessary
for 'C-x =', which will show 'name' if it exists, else 'old-name'.

Iʼm more interested in the visual separation between the U+ABCD and
the name.

Robert
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