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Re: Entering Unicode characters
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Entering Unicode characters |
Date: |
Sat, 06 Feb 2016 14:25:47 +0200 |
> From: Helmut Eller <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2016 12:56:14 +0100
>
> On Tue, Jan 26 2016, Richard Stallman wrote:
>
> > Would someone please implement this?
>
> Here is my shot at this. Load the attached file and start the browser
> with "M-x ubb-browse". That displays the characters of the "Basic Latin"
> block. From there it's probably the easiest to use the menu to explore
> the available commands.
>
> I defined a sets of characters for some languages by looking at
> Wikipedia. This would obviously need more work by people who are
> familiar with those languages.
>
> The file is also available at: https://github.com/ellerh/ubb
Thanks, I think this is very good.
One aspect where some improvement is probably needed is when
displaying large ranges of characters. For example, select
"Scripts->symbol" from the "Character-Browser" menu -- this displays
all the punctuation characters defined by Unicode. You get 160 lines
that display something like 4K characters, which takes a long time to
display (because Emacs looks for a suitable font), and somewhat hard
to view. Maybe we should display with those +/- widgets that allow
showing and hiding portions of the characters, so that each 256
characters could be shown or hidden separately?
Also, I think unassigned codepoints should not be shown, and the same
for Surrogates and Private-Area codepoints. They will never yield
anything but those rectangles with a codepoint in hex inside them.
Finally, I think a command to insert the character at point into
another buffer would be a good addition.
Thanks again for working on this.
- Re: Entering Unicode characters, Helmut Eller, 2016/02/06
- Re: Entering Unicode characters,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Entering Unicode characters, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/07
- Re: Entering Unicode characters, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2016/02/07
- Re: Entering Unicode characters, Stefan Monnier, 2016/02/08
- Re: Entering Unicode characters, Andreas Schwab, 2016/02/08
- Re: Entering Unicode characters, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/09
- Re: Entering Unicode characters, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/09
- Re: Entering Unicode characters, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/09