Re: evaluating numbers

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Yuri Khan <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 16:46:21 +0700
> Cc: Jean-Christophe Helary <address@hidden>, 
>       Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> 
> On Thu, 14 Nov 2019 at 16:26, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> A non-confusing solution to the issue “I have a code point and I’d
> like to know which character that is, but I don’t want Emacs to spend
> time trying all fonts to see if any of them has a glyph” could be to
> show the Unicode name for code points greater than
> eval-expression-print-maximum-character and less than (max-char).
> 
>     232 (#o350, #xe8, LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH GRAVE)
>     1114109 (#o4177775, #x10fffd, <Plane 16 Private Use>)

I don't think this is less confusing, and I'm not really interested in
opening that old debate again.  The train has left the station, so
people who are unhappy with the current defaults should customize the
option we provided back then.