I ran what-cursor-position on a unicode char. Get the following ...
position: 12 of 16 (69%), column: 0
character: Ő (displayed as Ő) (codepoint 336, #o520, #x150)
preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
code point in charset: 0x0150
script: latin
syntax: w which means: word
category: .:Base, L:Left-to-right (strong), j:Japanese, l:Latin
to input: type "C-x 8 RET 150" or "C-x 8 RET LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DOUBLE ACUTE"
buffer code: #xC5 #x90
file code: #xC5 #x90 (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
display: by this font (glyph code)
xft:-DAMA-Ubuntu Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-72-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1
(#x12E)
If I follow the 'to input' instructions ... i.e "C-x 8 RET 150" this
doesn't work. i.e. I can roundtrip and insert a copy of the character I
initially looked up. Needed to do "C-x 8 RET 0150" instead.
The to-input field maybe needs to display an octal string properly
prefixed with a zero maybe?
Rgds,
A.