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bug#23698: 24.5; broken character name
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#23698: 24.5; broken character name |
Date: |
Thu, 09 Jun 2016 17:37:31 +0300 |
> From: handa <handa@gnu.org>
> Cc: ynyaaa@gmail.com, 23698@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2016 23:32:21 +0900
>
> In article <83y46jtzbb.fsf@gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Displaying the list of Thai characters loads thai-util.el, which
> > deliberately overwrites the names derived from the Unicode Character
> > Database with its own variants. I'm CC'ing Handa-san, who added that
> > code back in 2008, in the hope that he could tell why are we doing
> > that, and whether this is still needed nowadays.
>
> Long ago, I discussed with Thai/Lao people about how to support their
> languages in Mule. At that time, as I can't speak those languages, we
> refer each character by name in the discussion. And, for debugging the
> support code, name property was very useful. That's the reason for
> those properties. Now, I think we can get rid them.
OK, thanks. So I guess Paul's change did TRT, and we can close this
bug report.