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: Thu, 31 Dec 2020 09:49:14 +0200

On December 31, 2020 8:39:03 AM GMT+02:00, jsbien <at> mimuw.edu.pl 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.
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