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

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2021 19:02:39 +0100

Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> writes:

>> Whereas while sorting them by their codepoints, characters
>> of the same Unicode block come together:
>>
>> 🦸	SUPERHERO
>> 🦹	SUPERVILLAIN
>
> Oh, I see.  Yes, in that case sorting the English character names is,
> indeed, not very optimal.
>
> Hm...

Here's a random idea -- perhaps the output could be formatted
differently than today (as an option)?  That is, with sections and
headings?

So

EMOJI
=====
🦸	SUPERHERO
🦹	SUPERVILLAIN
MATH
====
⁸	SUPERSCRIPT DIGIT EIGHT
⁴	SUPERSCRIPT DIGIT FOUR 
¹	SUPERSCRIPT DIGIT ONE 

or something?  (I don't know whether we actually have the data to do a
display like this, though.)

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