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Re: entering Unicode characters as hex numbers not documented


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: entering Unicode characters as hex numbers not documented
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 22:43:20 +0200
User-agent: 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




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