[debbugs-tracker] bug#9653: closed (24.0.50; `ucs-names' - Why all of the ("" . XXX) entries?)

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regarding 24.0.50; `ucs-names' - Why all of the ("" . XXX) entries?
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> 24.0.50; `ucs-names' - Why all of the ("" . XXX) entries?
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> Sun, 2 Oct 2011 09:36:54 -0700
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> AFAIK, there is no more recent Windows binary available than this one,
> so reporting this here.  (When will there be a Windows pretest binary?)
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> In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
>  of 2011-09-19 on 3249CTO
> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
> configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.5) --no-opt'
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> Is this a bug?  There are lots of entries in `ucs-names' that have "" as
> the car.  Shouldn't these be filtered out?  If not, what is their
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> The doc is very lightweight: "Alist of cached (CHAR-NAME . CHAR-CODE)
> pairs.", for the var, and "Return alist of (CHAR-NAME . CHAR-CODE)
> pairs cached in `ucs-names', for the function.
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> How can "" be a CHAR-NAME, i.e., the name of any character?
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> Please fix this, if a code bug, or document what this is about, if a doc
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux)
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> >> Could you take a look at this problem and replace the "" with nil for
> >> the name of unassigned chars?
> > Done.
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> Thank you,
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>         Stefan
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