Re: character sets as they relate to “Raw” string literals for elisp

[Daniel Brooks]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Daniel Brooks <db48x@db48x.net>
>> Cc: eliz@gnu.org,  monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2021 15:13:20 -0700
>> 
>> So one assumption that you might make is that new source code being
>> added to Emacs must use characters from a version of Unicode which is
>> known to have wide compatibility, rather than immediately jumping to the
>> bleeding–edge version? That would be perfectly reasonable.
>
> Except that it will only work if you use a very recent Emacs.  People
> are still using Emacs 24 out there, and many are using Emacs 26, which
> supports Unicode 11.0 (the latest version is 14.0).
>
> And that's before we even begin to think about people who use other
> programs to look at our files.

I’m afraid that this is not very convincing, for it means that we can
never move an inch.

db48x