From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl (Janusz S. =?utf-8?Q?Bie=C5=84?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: AproposUnicode (was: Help with unicode diacritics) Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 18:45:30 +0100 Message-ID: <87czytn7t1.fsf@mimuw.edu.pl> References: Reply-To: jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="37016"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: Help GNU Emacs To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 28 18:46:46 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 1ktwbW-0009Wp-4R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2020 18:46:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45048 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktwbV-0000Ut-5a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2020 12:46:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52892) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktwaZ-0000Rq-Nm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2020 12:45:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.mimuw.edu.pl ([2001:6a0:5001::4]:54329) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktwaW-0003Ej-OE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2020 12:45:47 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by duch.mimuw.edu.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85E5261E5AAE7; Mon, 28 Dec 2020 18:45:37 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mimuw.edu.pl Original-Received: from duch.mimuw.edu.pl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mimuw.edu.pl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id 7P_VYKzhwRUV; Mon, 28 Dec 2020 18:45:32 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from jsbdebian.mimuw.edu.pl (unknown [176.221.123.174]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (P-256) server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by duch.mimuw.edu.pl (Postfix) with ESMTPSA; Mon, 28 Dec 2020 18:45:31 +0100 (CET) Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2001:6a0:5001::4; envelope-from=jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl; helo=mail.mimuw.edu.pl X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=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:126872 Archived-At: On Mon, Dec 28 2020 at 8:50 -08, 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 I've made a quick test and looks like I would like it, but it seems that you completely ignore private use characters. For example, U+E8BF described by =E2=80=98describe-char=E2=80=99 as general-category: Co (Other= , Private Use) is completely ignored by `describe-chars-in-region'. Best regards Janusz --=20 ,=20=20=20 Janusz S. Bien emeryt (emeritus) https://sites.google.com/view/jsbien