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bug#9653: 24.0.50; `ucs-names' - Why all of the ("" . XXX) entries?
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Kenichi Handa |
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bug#9653: 24.0.50; `ucs-names' - Why all of the ("" . XXX) entries? |
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Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:02:05 +0900 |
In article <DAA41C92AE1641A190990F9A82239A86@us.oracle.com>, "Drew Adams"
<drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> > > Is (get-char-code-property c 'name) supposed to return ""
> > > when the char has no name or is it supposed to return nil?
> > > Either way is fine by me...
> >
> > It returns "" in such a case in Emacs 24...
> > ... the Unicode Name property, the default value is a null string.
> I'm following your discussion about this, but I don't see how it relates much
> to
> my question about `ucs-names'.
As I don't know how ucs-names is used (I have not known the
existence of such a variable), I have no answer to your
questions.
---
Kenichi Handa
handa@m17n.org
> `ucs-names' can probably be used for more than just a COLLECTION arg for
> completion. But at least in that context I don't see how using nil in place
> of
> "" would help at all (on the contrary, I would think).
> The question I had was whether & why we want to keep these nameless entries in
> `ucs-names'. I have nothing against it really (I just filter them out), but I
> wondered if they were intentional. It sounds like the answer to that is yes,
> but I wonder what the reason for keeping them is. That's all.
> Is the point in keeping these entries (regardless of whether we use "" or nil)
> that we want an entry for each code point, even for the code points that do
> not
> have names? If so, then let's be explicit about that aim (e.g. add it to the
> doc string or a comment).
- bug#9653: 24.0.50; `ucs-names' - Why all of the ("" . XXX) entries?, (continued)
- bug#9653: 24.0.50; `ucs-names' - Why all of the ("" . XXX) entries?, Stefan Monnier, 2011/10/03
- bug#9653: 24.0.50; `ucs-names' - Why all of the ("" . XXX) entries?, Kenichi Handa, 2011/10/03
- bug#9653: 24.0.50; `ucs-names' - Why all of the ("" . XXX) entries?, Stefan Monnier, 2011/10/04
- bug#9653: 24.0.50; `ucs-names' - Why all of the ("" . XXX) entries?, Kevin Rodgers, 2011/10/05
- bug#9653: 24.0.50; `ucs-names' - Why all of the ("" . XXX) entries?, Juanma Barranquero, 2011/10/06
- bug#9653: 24.0.50; `ucs-names' - Why all of the ("" . XXX) entries?, Andreas Schwab, 2011/10/06
- bug#9653: 24.0.50; `ucs-names' - Why all of the ("" . XXX) entries?, Juanma Barranquero, 2011/10/06
- bug#9653: 24.0.50; `ucs-names' - Why all of the ("" . XXX) entries?, Andreas Schwab, 2011/10/06
- bug#9653: 24.0.50; `ucs-names' - Why all of the ("" . XXX) entries?, Juanma Barranquero, 2011/10/06
- bug#9653: 24.0.50; `ucs-names' - Why all of the ("" . XXX) entries?, Drew Adams, 2011/10/03
- bug#9653: 24.0.50; `ucs-names' - Why all of the ("" . XXX) entries?,
Kenichi Handa <=
- bug#9653: 24.0.50; `ucs-names' - Why all of the ("" . XXX) entries?, Drew Adams, 2011/10/04
- bug#9653: 24.0.50; `ucs-names' - Why all of the ("" . XXX) entries?, Drew Adams, 2011/10/04
- bug#9653: 24.0.50; `ucs-names' - Why all of the ("" . XXX) entries?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/10/04
- bug#9653: 24.0.50; `ucs-names' - Why all of the ("" . XXX) entries?, Drew Adams, 2011/10/04
- bug#9653: 24.0.50; `ucs-names' - Why all of the ("" . XXX) entries?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/10/04
- bug#9653: 24.0.50; `ucs-names' - Why all of the ("" . XXX) entries?, Stefan Monnier, 2011/10/04
- bug#9653: 24.0.50; `ucs-names' - Why all of the ("" . XXX) entries?, Drew Adams, 2011/10/04
- bug#9653: 24.0.50; `ucs-names' - Why all of the ("" . XXX) entries?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/10/05
- bug#9653: 24.0.50; `ucs-names' - Why all of the ("" . XXX) entries?, Drew Adams, 2011/10/05
- bug#9653: 24.0.50; `ucs-names' - Why all of the ("" . XXX) entries?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/10/05