From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Unicode fonts - Re: Why do I find ^L in elisp code? Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 11:48:11 +0300 Message-ID: References: <87im3a5xqc.fsf@zoho.eu> <83h7iuj6i1.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="27032"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0.6 (2021-03-06) Cc: help-gnu-emacs To: Yuri Khan Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon May 24 10:53:36 2021 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 1ll6LA-0006pM-61 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 24 May 2021 10:53:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38832 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ll6L9-0001Iw-7A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 24 May 2021 04:53:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54014) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ll6Ka-0001Fp-89 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 May 2021 04:53:00 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:35123) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ll6KY-0001wl-75; Mon, 24 May 2021 04:52:59 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:102.87.235.181]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000000ADF16.0000000060AB6966.00005C4A; Mon, 24 May 2021 01:52:54 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Yuri Khan , Eli Zaretskii , help-gnu-emacs Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com 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_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:130166 Archived-At: * Yuri Khan [2021-05-24 11:01]: > On Mon, 24 May 2021 at 02:18, Jean Louis wrote: > > > > The characters you used above are not for human-readable text, they > > > are for mathematical formulas. So it has nothing to do with fonts, > > > you simply use these characters incorrectly. > > > > That may be technically right. > > > > 𝐡ut 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐒𝐚π₯ 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐒𝐚 𝑁𝐸𝐸𝐷𝑆 it. > > What it *wants* is a way to format text in bold, italic, monospace, > and strikethrough, > and so it *needs* HTML or Markdown support. Those are built-in features. Social media is full of ◦‒●❀♑ Β£Γ₯Γ±Β’Β₯ LΓͺ††ΓͺrΒ§ ♑❀●‒◦ beyond the built-in features. There is no need to constrain people in using Unicode symbols regardless for what they are meant. People may like symbols regardless of their meanings or political or scientific purposes. (β€’β—‘β€’) -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns Sign an open letter in support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/