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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2020 09:49:14 +0200

On December 31, 2020 8:39:03 AM GMT+02:00, [email-masked] wrote:
> So the PUA names are to be added to ucs-names in mule-cmds.el. At
> first
> glance it doesn't seem difficult, as I already have them in the form
> of 
> uni-name.el. I will work on it after New Year.

What would be the advantage of adding names for PUA codepoints?  The disadvantage is clear: bloating the Emacs process memory footprint by some 137,000 strings of some non-descriptive form, like PUA-CHARACTER-nn.

Btw, the names are not generated in mule-cmds.el, they are generated in unidata-gen.el.