From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Eglen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Help with unicode diacritics Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 09:51:43 +0000 Message-ID: <874kk339lc.fsf@cam.ac.uk> References: <87eejaxvbb.fsf@cam.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="16858"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: mu4e 1.4.13; emacs 27.1 Cc: Skip Montanaro , Help GNU Emacs , Stephen Eglen To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 30 10:52:28 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1kuY9c-0004HK-9s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 30 Dec 2020 10:52:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51312 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kuY9b-0003CJ-Bz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 30 Dec 2020 04:52:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58498) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kuY91-0003C5-7l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Dec 2020 04:51:51 -0500 Original-Received: from ppsw-40.csi.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.140]:42792) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kuY8y-0001dz-TT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Dec 2020 04:51:51 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=cam.ac.uk; s=20180806.ppsw; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Date:In-reply-to: Subject:Cc:To:From:References:Sender:Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender: Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=PECnv7SGmby0SwAFYsGEMnJ2RTRtFxke5fI4LjuQYPs=; b=NP+igdil5t+dJ8WXM5rNOyw/No T4QbMXvThVz2xVg7/3QjTstSpmR14mDkdT49cXDV1EvnJLiWNgzc0CBkZeulm+MolDnrY5tS8SUpA dWR57yXRs0mwmDu1Xe5Aco3j7clalFkOFcQOIdJul6m0t0ZCr/1k24UVvBuHFITMDdXw=; X-Cam-AntiVirus: no malware found X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://help.uis.cam.ac.uk/email-scanner-virus Original-Received: from 67.108.200.146.dyn.plus.net ([146.200.108.67]:60004 helo=localhost) by ppsw-40.csi.cam.ac.uk (smtp.hermes.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.158]:587) with esmtpsa (PLAIN:sje30) (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) id 1kuY8t-0001u2-ly (Exim 4.92.3) (return-path ); Wed, 30 Dec 2020 09:51:43 +0000 In-reply-to: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=131.111.8.140; envelope-from=sje30@cam.ac.uk; helo=ppsw-40.csi.cam.ac.uk X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIMWL_WL_MED=-0.001, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:126912 Archived-At: Thanks Drew, and to the others for replying. (Apologies I can't reply to individual messages that were not CC'ed to mem, as I'm not on the mailing list yet.) To answer Eli's suggestions: 1. I don't need a latin font, I need a unicode font for handling mathematical expressions like x bar (for the mean of x) as I said in my original email. 2. I think the juliamono font does contain glyphs for both "a" and the "overlinecomb". I asked the font author: https://github.com/cormullion/juliamono/issues/87 3. If anyone knows of a good font for handling these diacritics, I'd like to hear recommendations, thank you. In the meantime, I will investigate firacode. best wishes to all for 2021. Stephen On Mon, Dec 28 2020, Drew Adams wrote: >> sometime ago I stashed a file in my home directory where I >> could look up the occasional accented character. I visited that file and >> the letters all look fine. Here's a chunk of small letter a code points: > > Only partly related to this thread, and just FYI. > > My library `apu.el' (Apropos Unicode) can sometimes > help with showing info about Unicode chars. > > https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AproposUnicode > > https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/apu.el