insert unicode

insert unicode

[Emabela]

Hello Everybody,



I know that this is the simplest question,

but I could not find the answer.

So any help would be greatly appreciated.



How can I map a key to insert a unicode character

(say, U+XYZW)?



(define-key global-map "\M-a" ?????")



Thanks.



Regards,

B.





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Re: insert unicode

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 05.01.2006 um 21:00 schrieb Emabela:

> How can I map a key to insert a unicode character

	read-quoted-char-radix is a variable defined in `custom'.
	Its value is 16
	
	Documentation:
	*Radix for C-q and other uses of `read-quoted-char'.
	Legitimate radix values are 8, 10 and 16.
	
	You can customize this variable.


Then C-q a b c d <RET>. I think from CVS Emacs 22.0.50. I'm not sure  
whether Unicode makes sense in 21.4.

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Re: insert unicode

[B. T. Raven]

"Emabela" <emabela@vipmail.hu> wrote in message
news:mailman.0.1136491361.26925.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org...



Hello Everybody,



I know that this is the simplest question,

but I could not find the answer.

So any help would be greatly appreciated.



How can I map a key to insert a unicode character

(say, U+XYZW)?



(define-key global-map "\M-a" ?????")



Thanks.



Regards,

B.


M-a is already bound to 'backward-sentence but anyway this might work:

(global-set-key "\M-a" (lambda () (interactive) (insert  ?ઔ)))

I have 21.3 and I do it this way: e.g. U+0A94 (some Gujarati glyph -
letter AU). Download the free (for non commercial use) Babelmap, find your
character and then copy it into Emacs, insert it after the question mark
in the above statement (in *scratch*), evaluate, test, and then put it in
your .emacs if you want to keep it:

ઔ

Ed

Re: insert unicode

[Ian Zimmerman]

Peter> Then C-q a b c d <RET>. I think from CVS Emacs 22.0.50. I'm not
Peter> sure whether Unicode makes sense in 21.4.

But what happens to `quoted-insert'?

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Re: insert unicode

[Emabela]

I forgot to mention: I use emacs 21.4.



> M-a is already bound to 'backward-sentence but anyway this might work:

> (global-set-key "\M-a" (lambda () (interactive) (insert  ?ŕŞ&#6553
3;)))





> I have 21.3 and I do it this way: e.g. U+0A94 (some Gujarati glyph -

> letter AU). Download the free (for non commercial use) Babelmap, find 
your

> character and then copy it into Emacs, insert it after the question ma
rk

> in the above statement (in *scratch*), evaluate, test, and then put it
 in

> your .emacs if you want to keep it:



Thanks for your help.



Is it possible to specify the unicode character with latin-1 charaters?



Say,

(global-set-key "\M-a" (lambda () (interactive) (insert  ?\u+0a94)))

or something like that?

(so that the command would not depend on the encoding of .emacs)



; C-q is out of question (it's too complicated) :

; If I press the key a with acute (U+00E1) in xterm, emacs thinks

; I pressed M-a (according to view-lossage), and I

; frequently use that character.





Again, thanks for any help in advance.



Regards,

Bela





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Re: insert unicode

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 06.01.2006 um 06:24 schrieb Ian Zimmerman:

>
> Peter> Then C-q a b c d <RET>. I think from CVS Emacs 22.0.50. I'm not
> Peter> sure whether Unicode makes sense in 21.4.
>
> But what happens to `quoted-insert'?
>

It still works: C-q f RET -> ^O, C-q 9 RET -> TAB, C-q BSP RET -> ^?,  
C-q 1 2 3 RET -> ģ, C-q w RET -> w, ...

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Re: insert unicode

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

+ Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>:

| It still works: C-q f RET -> ^O, C-q 9 RET -> TAB, C-q BSP RET -> ^?,
| C-q 1 2 3 RET -> ģ, C-q w RET -> w, ...

But surely, only in a unicode emacs from CVS?  On emacs 21.3.1, I get

quoted-insert: Invalid character: 0443, 291, 0x123

(But I only have 21.3 and CVS emacsen to play with.  Don't know what
happens with 22, but I'd be surprised if it behaved differently than
21 in this respect.)

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Re: insert unicode

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 09.01.2006 um 10:46 schrieb Harald Hanche-Olsen:

> But surely, only in a unicode emacs from CVS?  On emacs 21.3.1, I get
>
> quoted-insert: Invalid character: 0443, 291, 0x123
>
> (But I only have 21.3 and CVS emacsen to play with.  Don't know what
> happens with 22, but I'd be surprised if it behaved differently than
> 21 in this respect.)


Yes, you' re right: this only works in Unicode Emacs 23! In both GNU  
Emacs 21.3.50 and 22.0.50 I cannot input a character that is 'wider  
than two hex places'.

Well, Unicode Emacs is the one that works mostly well for me,  
although GNU Emacs 22.0.50 is coming close in handling Unicode ...

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Re: insert unicode

[kokrhac - Ales MATAS]

Peter Dyballa wrote:

> Yes, you' re right: this only works in Unicode Emacs 23! In both GNU  
> Emacs 21.3.50 and 22.0.50 I cannot input a character that is 'wider  
> than two hex places'.
> 
> Well, Unicode Emacs is the one that works mostly well for me,  although 
> GNU Emacs 22.0.50 is coming close in handling Unicode ...
> 

I'm not an expert, but you can insert (in 20.0.50) with C-q a character 
that is wider than 2 hex places. But the numer is not unicode code. 
(E.g. try C-q 5 3 9 7 c ... with (setq read-quoted-char-radix 16) )

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Re: insert unicode

[Oliver Scholz]

"Emabela" <emabela@vipmail.hu> writes:

[...]
> How can I map a key to insert a unicode character
>
> (say, U+XYZW)?
>
>
>
> (define-key global-map "\M-a" ?????")

In Emacs 22:

(defun my-insert-ucs (hex)
  (interactive "sHexadecimal code: ")
  (ucs-insert hex))

(define-key global-map [?\C-c ?u] #'my-insert-ucs)


    Oliver
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Re: insert unicode

[Oliver Scholz]

[Follow up to myself]

Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de> writes:

> "Emabela" <emabela@vipmail.hu> writes:
>
> [...]
>> How can I map a key to insert a unicode character
>>
>> (say, U+XYZW)?
>>
>>
>>
>> (define-key global-map "\M-a" ?????")
>
> In Emacs 22:
>
> (defun my-insert-ucs (hex)
>   (interactive "sHexadecimal code: ")
>   (ucs-insert hex))
>
> (define-key global-map [?\C-c ?u] #'my-insert-ucs)

Scrap that. Just:

(define-key global-map [?\C-c ?u] #'ucs-insert)


    Oliver
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