bug#32599: 25.2; Feature request: input PUA characters by name

[Janusz S. Bień]

The second attempt to post.

Regards

JSB

On Mon, Aug 27 2018 at  9:00 +0200, jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl writes:
> Please extend 'insert-char' to allow using the PUA character names and
> codes provided in the format of Unicode named sequences
>
> http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr34/tr34-23.html
>
> but containing only single characters.
>
> Such data are already available for the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative
> specification at
>
> https://bitbucket.org/jsbien/unihistext/src/master/example/
>
> A more radical extension would allow also to input real named sequences,
> but from my point of view this is of much lower importance.
>
> Best regards
>
> Janusz
>
>
> In GNU Emacs 25.2.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.30)
>  of 2018-07-11, modified by Debian built on x86-ubc-01
> Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12000000
> System Description:   Debian GNU/Linux testing (buster)
>
> Configured using:
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>  --localstatedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info
>  --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes
>  
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>  --with-sound=alsa --without-gconf --build x86_64-linux-gnu
>  --prefix=/usr --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib
>  --localstatedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info
>  --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes
>  
> --enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs25:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/25.2/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/25.2/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
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> -fstack-protector-strong
>  -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall' 'CPPFLAGS=-Wdate-time
>  -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro'
>
> Configured features:
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> ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB
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> Important settings:
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> Major mode: Group
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> Minor modes in effect:
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> Load-path shadows:
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Janusz S. Bien
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