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 #44 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: 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

-- 
             ,   
Janusz S. Bien
emeryt (emeritus)
https://sites.google.com/view/jsbien
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