Subject: Re: bug#32599: 25.2; Feature request: input PUA characters by name

From: [email-masked] (Janusz S. Bień)
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 11:09:59 +0200

On Fri, Aug 31 2018 at 10:05 +0200, [email-masked] writes:
> [email-masked] (Janusz S. Bień) writes:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 27 2018 at  9:00 +0200, [email-masked] writes:
>>> Please extend 'insert-char' to allow using the PUA character names and
>>> codes provided in the format of Unicode named sequences
>>>
>>> http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr34/tr34-23.html
>>>
>>> but containing only single characters.
>
> Iʼm not sure I understand the request: insert-char already supports
> using character names or code points to specify the character. What's
> missing?

You are missing "PUA" in the topic and in the text of my feature
request. PUA is Private Use Area. Cf. e.g.

https://folk.uib.no/hnooh/mufi/

and try to insert a character using such name as 'COMBINING ABBREVIATION
MARK SUPERSCRIPT UR ROUND R FORM'. Cf. also

https://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2018-m08/0096.html

Best regards

Janusz

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