From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Howard Melman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Entering emojis Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2021 21:38:45 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87cznths5j.fsf@gnus.org> <83zgqxymd3.fsf@gnu.org> <878rygj4gt.fsf@gnus.org> <83wnm0zz0q.fsf@gnu.org> <874k94j3rn.fsf@gnus.org> <83v91kzydh.fsf@gnu.org> <87tuh4holf.fsf@gnus.org> <822aec9d01909cecfc6c@heytings.org> <87a6iwhltf.fsf@gnus.org> <83tuh4zfg5.fsf@gnu.org> <87y26gfobr.fsf@gnus.org> <87tuh4f1ie.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="23054"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (darwin) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:VXOjMAV5BUvbn89JLdBaJDNsrCQ= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 27 03:39:50 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mfXuw-0005t6-35 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 27 Oct 2021 03:39:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47886 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mfXuu-000832-Kd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2021 21:39:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46454) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mfXu7-0007FW-KO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2021 21:38:59 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:56402) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mfXu6-0007um-7u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2021 21:38:59 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mfXu2-0004nK-7I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Oct 2021 03:38:54 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: 5 X-Spam_score: 0.5 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (0.5 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD=1, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.25, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:277935 Archived-At: Stefan Kangas writes: > Stefan Kangas writes: > > I think that most users will just assume that emojis are broken and move > on. Maybe some will soldier on and find the fix. I very nearly didn't. FWIW I use the mac port (aka carbon port) of Emacs 27.2 and emojis "just work" reasonably well. > Also, and I'm sorry in advance, but can we please change the text to > something understandable? > > ** New character script 'emoji' has been created. > Various blocks of codepoints have been split out of the 'symbol' > script into their own 'emoji' script to allow easier specification of > their treatment. Which codepoints are treated as emoji is derived > from the Unicode specifications. > > Uh, what? I have no idea what practical difference any of the words in > the above would make. Blocks of codepoints? What is a 'symbol' script? > Am I a horrible programmer and human being if I don't know what any of > this means? I've been using emacs since the 1980s, on a mac since 2005, and I don't really know what any of that means either. > Unless of course this is only of interest to actual Unicode experts, in > which case ignore me and carry on. -- Howard