GNU bug report logs - #78714
30.1; failure binding keys to certain unicode characters

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: John Holman <john.g.holman <at> gmail.com>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 78714 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#78714: 30.1; failure binding keys to certain unicode characters
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2025 15:45:04 +0300

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> From: John Holman <john.g.holman <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2025 13:38:49 +0100
> 
> Many thanks for the fast response. I do think that's a surprising feature and that most users would expect
> "\u00B2" to be interpreted as a unicode character especially given the \u representation, which I think is
> specific to Unicode even if treated as just a variant numerical representation in emacs. Would it make sense
> for emacs to take the \u format into account when interpreting that string?

I don't think this is feasible, since by the time the character is
interpreted the information that it came from a "\uNNN" format is long
gone.  But maybe Stefan (CC'ed) will have some ideas.

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