bug#17702: 24.3; insert-char no longer inserts "bell" control character

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Thu, 05 Jun 2014, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> I wouldn't hold my breath. They've deliberately removed names of the
> control characters, as explained clearly in the Unicode Standard.
> But you are welcome to ask a question on the Unicode mailing list
> unicode@unicode.org.

I've browsed around and found
http://www.unicode.org/Public/6.3.0/ucd/NameAliases.txt which says:

# Note that no formal name alias for the ISO 6429 "BELL" is
# provided for U+0007, because of the existing name collision
# with U+1F514 BELL.

So it seems that they are aware of the problem already.


>>>>> On Thu, 5 Jun 2014, Josh  wrote:

> Is there a reason you can't use `C-q C-g' to insert this character?

Sure, it's not unusual that a task can be performed in Emacs in
several different ways. Is this an excuse for one of them being
imperfect?