Names for control characters (Was: "(in 6429)" in allkeys.txt)

Eli Zaretskii eliz at gnu.org
Wed Mar 12 11:26:06 CDT 2014


> From: starback at stp.lingfil.uu.se (Per Starbäck)
> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:32:15 +0100
> Cc: "unicode at unicode.org" <unicode at unicode.org>
> 
> Regarding these names in ISO 6429 again, how come these control
> characters don't have Unicode names?

They have a non-empty "old name" field:

  0000;<control>;Cc;0;BN;;;;;N;NULL;;;;
                               ^^^^

> Emacs should do better regarding this

As you yourself say, it already does, so I don't see the point in this
rant.



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