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bug#15703: [PATCH 1/8] EWW: Support user defined representation for chec
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#15703: [PATCH 1/8] EWW: Support user defined representation for checkbox. |
Date: |
Sun, 03 Nov 2013 20:50:56 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
>>> Ah, OK, I see. But it seems like kind of the same ideas, so maybe a
>>> generic facility would be useful... not a font-lock interaction, but for
>>> keeping the record of "this string maps to this Unicode symbol"?
>>> Basically a big hashtable with some user control. Then
>>> `prettify-symbols-mode' could use that facility too.
SM> I think it'd be easier to go the other way around: provide an
SM> replacement to use if/when the display font doesn't provide a glyph for
SM> that characters.
> That doesn't help with drawing trees in Unicode, for example.
I think this case is quite different: none of the proposals so far can
handle it. And I don't think it can be handled purely locally
(i.e. without knowing that those chars are put together to represent
a tree).
Stefan