bug#53896: 28.0.91; Icomplete Vertical Mode fails to preview "C-x 8 RET 8072"

[Van Ly]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2022, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> tags 53896 notabug
> thanks

Thanks.

> This shows [No match].
>
> The reason is that we deliberately remove all the CJG IDEOGRAPH-NNNN
> names from the list of character names we submit to "C-x 8 RET" as
> possible completions.  We do that because there are gobs of those
> characters, whose names mean nothing (they are not real names), and
> whose existence in the completions would just add a lot of noise.
>
> This is a feature, not a bug.

It is a blindspot for studying a human culture.

Maybe further on there can be a toggle and filter to sort the meaning 
from the noise, sort of like how Grammarly uses Lisp.

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vl