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25.2; Feature request: input PUA characters by name

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From: jsbien <at> mimuw.edu.pl (Janusz S. Bień)
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 25.2; Feature request: input PUA characters by name
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 08:05:10 +0200

The second attempt to post.

Regards

JSB

On Mon, Aug 27 2018 at  9:00 +0200, jsbien <at> mimuw.edu.pl 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.
>
> Such data are already available for the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative
> specification at
>
> https://bitbucket.org/jsbien/unihistext/src/master/example/
>
> A more radical extension would allow also to input real named sequences,
> but from my point of view this is of much lower importance.
>
> Best regards
>
> Janusz
>
>
> In GNU Emacs 25.2.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.30)
>  of 2018-07-11, modified by Debian built on x86-ubc-01
> Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12000000
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-- 
             ,   
Janusz S. Bien
emeryt (emeritus)
https://sites.google.com/view/jsbien

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