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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 23:32:12 +0300

> Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:48:19 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> > Btw, why did you ask for an index entry `utf-8'?  This function has
> > nothing to do with UTF-8.
> 
> David has answered this.  It's far easier IMHO to provide a `wrong'
> index entry than making Joe User learn the distinction between a
> character set and an encoding.

We shouldn't cater only to the ignorant.  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.




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