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Subject: Re: unicode as valid naming symbols
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:55:45 -0400
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On Thu, Mar 27, 2014, at 11:10, Rustom Mody wrote:
> Just out of curiosity how do/did you type that?
> When I see an exotic denizen from the unicode-universe I paste it into
> emacs and ask "Who are you?"
> 
> But with your 'def' my emacs is going a bit crazy!

Your emacs probably is using UCS-2 or UTF-16. The former can't handle
characters above 65535 at all, the latter stores them as if they were
two characters [so code that's not expecting them will handle them
incorrectly]