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Re: Entering Unicode characters


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: Entering Unicode characters
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 13:19:15 -0500

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  > > Why not?  Emacs could know the usual place where these font files are
  > > stored, and some Lisp code could find a particular font file
  > > just like the command that tells the terminal which font to use.

  > How can it know?  Emacs compiled --without-x doesn't even have
  > font-related code compiled in.  And even if it had, the terminal
  > emulator might very well use a different font back-end, which keeps
  > font information in a different place.  Especially if the terminal
  > emulator runs on a different OS.

So the feature won't work in that case.

We don't have to choose between perfection and nothing.

  > So maybe a better solution would be a feature that would tell Emacs
  > explicitly, by user initiative, which characters are displayable?  The
  > user would run some utility to find that out, and then communicate the
  > results to Emacs via some customization.  That sounds more reliable to
  > me than have Emacs assume something about fonts in two different
  > places.

That's a good idea.

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