GNU bug report logs - #32599
25.2; Feature request: input PUA characters by name

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: jsbien <at> mimuw.edu.pl

Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 06:53:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: moreinfo

Found in version 25.2

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #29 received at 32599 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: jsbien <at> mimuw.edu.pl (Janusz S. Bień)
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 32599 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#32599: 25.2; Feature request: input PUA characters by name
Date: Sun, 26 May 2019 17:48:43 +0200

On Sun, May 26 2019 at 17:18 +02, Janusz S. Bień wrote:

[...]

>> The UnicodeData.txt file is compiled into Emacs,
>
> I know and I'm curious whether it is really needed.

It was a bad wording as I can guess it is done for efficiency.

How the character data are stored and accessed? I have no qualification
to find the answer myself in the code,

> Why it cannot be loaded at the startup?

Or, better, partially overriden or supplemented? Is is prohibited by the
way the character data are stored?

Best regards

Janusz

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Janusz S. Bien
emeryt (emeritus)
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