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Re: Entering Unicode characters
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Richard Stallman |
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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.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
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