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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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: jsbien <at> mimuw.edu.pl
Cc: 32599 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32599: 25.2; Feature request: input PUA characters by name
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 22:52:13 +0200

> From: jsbien <at> mimuw.edu.pl (Janusz S. Bień)
> Cc: 32599 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 18:49:26 +0100
> 
> Which part of the code is responsible for prompting, name input and
> consulting the character names list?

The interactive spec:

     "(list (read-char-by-name \"Insert character (Unicode name or hex): \")\
	    (prefix-numeric-value current-prefix-arg)\
	    t))",

IOW, the call to read-char-by-name does that.
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