Subject: Re: bug#46240: Sorting order of read-char-by-name

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2021 20:47:52 +0200

> From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked]
> Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2021 19:16:00 +0200
> 
> But the problem is that currently characters of one Unicode block
> are scattered among the whole list.
> 
> For example, in 'C-x 8 RET SUPER TAB' the character SUPERHERO
> from the Unicode block 'Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs'
> currently is displayed at the beginning of the long list of
> SUPERSCRIPT characters from the block 'Superscripts and Subscripts',
> but its counterpart character SUPERVILLAIN is displayed
> at the end of the long list of SUPERSCRIPT characters.

There are such use cases as well, yes.  And there are others.  But the
point is that even if some Unicode block gets scattered (when the part
the user typed natches too many character names), the ordering by name
allows an easier orientation in the long list.