Re: Inserting by name and describing some PUA characters

[jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl (Janusz S. Bień)]

On Sun, Jan 03 2021 at 17:20 +02, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl (Janusz S. Bień)
>> Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2021 08:36:28 +0100
>> 
>> PUA stands for Unicode Private Use Area, cf. e.g.
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Use_Areas.
>> 
>> I use systematically the PUA characters defined by MUFI,
>> cf. e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Unicode_Font_Initiative.
>> 
>> Recently I made a quick and dirty solution for my own feature request
>> 
>> https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=32599
>> 
>> (in a slightly different way than suggested originally).
>> 
>> The files and the documentation are available at
>> https://github.com/jsbien/unicode4polish in the Emacs-MUFI directory.
>> 
>> Please consider improving and expanding my solution and making it
>> available as e.g. ELPA or non-ELPA package.
>
> Thanks.
>
> I may be missing something, but I couldn't find in your Github
> repository the infrastructure that could be used to tell Emacs to
> interpret arbitrary ranges of PUA codepoints as characters with
> certain properties.  Could you please point me to the parts I missed?

You haven't missed nothing. My knowledge of ELisp is too rudimentary for
creating such an infrastructure myself.

However in the documentation I described the procedure needed to tell
Emacs to interpret arbitrary ranges of PUA codepoints as characters with
*names*. It definitely can be extended to handle other properties but I
have not investigated this aspect.

So my repository contains just a proof-of-concept (which also is useful
for me personally).

Regards - Janusz

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