From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Entering Unicode characters Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 13:19:15 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83twmkkv16.fsf@gnu.org> <56B7901A.6080700@gmail.com> <8337t1dcq4.fsf@gnu.org> <834mdgbgho.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455214797 19735 80.91.229.3 (11 Feb 2016 18:19:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 18:19:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: schwab@suse.de, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 11 19:19:48 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aTvqE-0005Xk-E4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2016 19:19:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52472 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTvqD-0004mH-L3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2016 13:19:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52676) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTvpp-0004L9-Lr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2016 13:19:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTvpo-0005Tf-Sj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2016 13:19:21 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:58939) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTvpk-0005RF-RU; Thu, 11 Feb 2016 13:19:16 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aTvpj-00005B-An; Thu, 11 Feb 2016 13:19:15 -0500 In-reply-to: <834mdgbgho.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 10 Feb 2016 19:52:03 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:199760 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > 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) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.