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Re: entering Unicode characters as hex numbers not documented
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: entering Unicode characters as hex numbers not documented |
Date: |
Thu, 01 Jun 2006 23:58:09 +0300 |
> Cc: Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 22:43:20 +0200
>
> > We shouldn't cater only to the ignorant.
>
> It is the ignorant who need to consult a manual in the first place.
No, everybody needs to consult a manual. The only exceptions are
those super-humans who can remember a 600-page manual by heart.
> > If I type "i utf-8 RET" and land on the page that describes
> > ucs-insert, I don't want to waste time looking for information that
> > just isn't there.
>
> The time to press `,' is not exactly taxing for a cognoscente.
I was talking about the time it takes to read and re-read the node,
searching in vain where it talks about UTF. I have a bad habit of
trusting the index, so if it says there's something about UTF, I'll
try hard to find it.
Re: entering Unicode characters as hex numbers not documented, Werner LEMBERG, 2006/06/01
Re: entering Unicode characters as hex numbers not documented, Juri Linkov, 2006/06/01
Re: entering Unicode characters as hex numbers not documented, Kenichi Handa, 2006/06/01