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25.1; C-x = for Unicode

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From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl <at> rz.uni-regensburg.de>, 24902 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24902: 25.1; C-x = for Unicode
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 11:40:01 +0100

24 jan. 2022 kl. 10.21 skrev Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>:

> Emacs defaults to showing some things in octal, so showing octal here
> isn't that absurd...

What things would that be? The only ones I can think of are raw bytes and some control characters.

The only reason why C-x = shows octal is inertia. If you wrote the command today, you would not include octal.

This is just another Immovable Ladder in Emacs. It must be preserved exactly as it is, for the sole reason that it has always been this way.

> `C-x 8 e d' says what the name of the character is.  Perhaps it should
> also include the hex value...

Or perhaps we could improve the more commonly used and accessible `C-x =` to show both?

I could write a patch to change it (with an option to keep the Good Old Times look for the traditionalist), but there's no point if it would be dismissed out of hand. Would it?

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