Re: Any objection to adding a unicode footnote style? (encoding fixed)

[Leo]

On 2011-05-09 01:14 +0800, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
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> That's what I did.

Sorry for sending a diff with mixed encodings. It is now split into
two parts:
           1. convert footnote.el to utf-8
           2. diff (attached)

Leo

>From d889e335e5587e1162cd2b4240c8239fabac4ce5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 12:22:13 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Add a new footnote style `unicode'

---
 lisp/mail/footnote.el |   23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lisp/mail/footnote.el b/lisp/mail/footnote.el
index c9899ca7..dc967ec8 100644
--- a/lisp/mail/footnote.el
+++ b/lisp/mail/footnote.el
@@ -292,6 +292,25 @@ (defun Footnote-latin (n)
   (string (aref footnote-latin-string
                (mod (1- n) (length footnote-latin-string)))))
 
+;; Unicode
+
+(defconst footnote-unicode-string "⁰¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹"
+  "String of unicode footnoting characters.")
+
+(defconst footnote-unicode-regexp (concat "[" footnote-unicode-string "]+")
+  "Regexp for unicode footnoting characters.")
+
+(defun Footnote-unicode (n)
+  "Unicode footnote style.
+Use unicode characters for footnoting."
+  (let (modulus result done)
+    (while (not done)
+      (setq modulus (mod n 10)
+            n (truncate n 10))
+      (and (zerop n) (setq done t))
+      (push (aref footnote-unicode-string modulus) result))
+    (apply #'string result)))
+
 ;;; list of all footnote styles
 (defvar footnote-style-alist
   `((numeric Footnote-numeric ,footnote-numeric-regexp)
@@ -299,7 +318,8 @@ (defvar footnote-style-alist
     (english-upper Footnote-english-upper ,footnote-english-upper-regexp)
     (roman-lower Footnote-roman-lower ,footnote-roman-lower-regexp)
     (roman-upper Footnote-roman-upper ,footnote-roman-upper-regexp)
-    (latin Footnote-latin ,footnote-latin-regexp))
+    (latin Footnote-latin ,footnote-latin-regexp)
+    (unicode Footnote-unicode ,footnote-unicode-regexp))
   "Styles of footnote tags available.
 By default only boring Arabic numbers, English letters and Roman Numerals
 are available.
@@ -314,6 +334,7 @@ (defcustom footnote-style 'numeric
 roman-lower == i, ii, iii, iv, v, ...
 roman-upper == I, II, III, IV, V, ...
 latin == ¹ ² ³ º ª § ¶
+unicode == ¹, ², ³, ...
 See also variables `footnote-start-tag' and `footnote-end-tag'.
 
 Customizing this variable has no effect on buffers already
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