bug#17702: 24.3; insert-char no longer inserts "bell" control character

[Josh]

On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:

> I've browsed around and found

> http://www.unicode.org/Public/6.3.0/ucd/NameAliases.txt which says:

> 

> # Note that no formal name alias for the ISO 6429 "BELL" is

> # provided for U+0007, because of the existing name collision

> # with U+1F514 BELL.

> 

> So it seems that they are aware of the problem already.

The passage you quoted suggests a possible enhancement to insert-char,

namely adding support for ISO 6429 names in addition to Unicode names,

using suffixes something like "BELL (Unicode)" and "BELL (ISO 6429)" to 

disambiguate.

> >>>>> On Thu, 5 Jun 2014, Josh  wrote:

> 

> > Is there a reason you can't use `C-q C-g' to insert this character?

> 

> Sure, it's not unusual that a task can be performed in Emacs in

> several different ways. Is this an excuse for one of them being

> imperfect?

Certainly not, but I thought it possible that you hadn't considered

that approach and might be interested in performing the task with

1/3 the keystrokes :)