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28.0.91; Icomplete Vertical Mode fails to preview "C-x 8 RET 8072"

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From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Van Ly <van.ly <at> sdf.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 53896 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#53896: 28.0.91; Icomplete Vertical Mode fails to preview "C-x 8 RET 8072"
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2022 08:48:47 +0800

Van Ly <van.ly <at> sdf.org> writes:

> LINEAR A SIGN A807 ; from C-x 8 RET 807
>
> The above is utterly meaningless to me but maybe it is meaningful to
> the community studying Linear A.  And, maybe with time and more
> information the text description will improve.

I cannot speak Linear A, so I can't help you there.

> My use case sources the CJK to read from, for example
>
> => https://ctext.org/er-ya/shi-gu
> => https://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php
>
> maybe there remain no speakers of those signs.

The numbers after a CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH name are completely arbitrary.
They have no correspondence to the meanings of the characters at all.

> The current name for "<control>" had the old name "LINE FEED (LF)".

Now you have lost me.

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