Subject: Re: bug#43866: 26.3; italian postfix additions

From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 16:40:47 +0200

>>>>> On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 17:29:58 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> said:

    >> From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
    >> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked]
    >> Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 10:11:55 +0200
    >> 
    >> Canʼt you pass a string containing ?y and ?́ as the last argument to
    >> define-key? (although you might want to use the ?\N{NAME} or ?\uXXXX
    >> syntax to stop Emacs combining that U+0301 with the question mark)

    Eli> The character composition happens only on display, the buffer or
    Eli> string still have two codepoints.

Yes. But when looking at the code it would look like a single glyph,
which would be confusing.

Robert
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