Re: printing most-negative-fixnum fails

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> Beginning users don't do lots of interactive Lisp evals,
> so I don't think we need to worry so much about confusing
> them.  Loading the fonts might be a more serious issue.
> However, adding an option is a very undesirable way to
> solve such a problem.  It is costly in complexity and will
> leave many users unsatisfied.

> Can anyone think of another idea for how to avoid the
> problem?

How about this?

For non-ASCII chars, print only charset name, or print
something like below:

        53794 = (make-char 'japanese-jisx0208 36 34)

And make C-u C-u C-x C-e show a real character.  It's very
unfortunate that we can't use C-u C-x C-e for that (I've
never used it).

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Ken'ichi HANDA
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