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

From: [email-masked] (Janusz S. Bień)
Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 07:48:38 +0200

On Sun, May 26 2019 at 21:52 +03, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

[...]

> Personally, I'm surprised people use PUA for
> these purposes,

Which purposes? Cf.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Use_Areas
http://www.kreativekorp.com/charset/PUADATA/
http://bit.ly/2XVTzRL-LINCUA

> and even more surprised they expect Emacs to support
> this.  But that's me.

PUA characters, especially MUFI, are needed to typeset some
texts. (XeLa)TeX is still a very good typesetting system and Emacs-based
AUCTeX is still a very good tool to use TeX.

Best regards

Janusz

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