Re: etc/nxml/*.el duplicate lisp/international/uni-name.el?

[Kan-Ru Chen]

Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:

> Kan-Ru Chen <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> It seems etc/nxml/*.el, some unicode name to code point tables,
>> are only used by `nxml-insert-named-char'. It looks like a variant of
>> `ucs-insert' while outputs NCR instead of real character.
>>
>> Should nxml use `read-char-by-name' so we could remove a bunch of
>> duplicated data?
>
> The tables are also required by nxml-get-char-name, so we would also
> need a generic replacement for that.  Help welcome.

I'd like to help!

But I am wondering what function/variable should be considered public
interface to be kept compatible. For example, currently nxml allow
customize nxml-enabled-unicode-blocks, so I have to keep it, but what
about other defuns/defvars?

- Newbie to Emacs internals