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Re: entering Unicode characters as hex numbers not documented
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David Kastrup |
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Re: entering Unicode characters as hex numbers not documented |
Date: |
Thu, 01 Jun 2006 22:43:20 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> 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.
It is the ignorant who need to consult a manual in the first place.
> 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.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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