From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Entering Unicode characters Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 20:46:20 +0200 Message-ID: <837fiw18n7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83twmkkv16.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453833977 20818 80.91.229.3 (26 Jan 2016 18:46:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 18:46:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tianxiang Xiong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 26 19:46:08 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aO8ct-0000bV-6z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 19:46:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46193 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aO8cr-0008In-Mz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 13:46:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53855) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aO8cn-0008If-Qw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 13:45:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aO8cl-0007Aa-5M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 13:45:57 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41632) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aO8cl-0007AU-1t; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 13:45:55 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1493 helo=HOME-C4E4A596F7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aO8cj-0002M6-Hd; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 13:45:54 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Tianxiang Xiong on Tue, 26 Jan 2016 17:08:29 +0000 (UTC)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:198873 Archived-At: > From: Tianxiang Xiong > Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 17:08:29 +0000 (UTC) > > Richard Stallman gnu.org> writes: > > > I want a system that lets me choose them by seeing them on the screen. > > I want to specify a language or script and see all its characters. > > > > For instance, if I enter 'turkish' it should show me all the > > characters used in Turkish. Then I could pick the dotless i from the > > buffer. > > > > Would someone please implement this? > > > > It seems that what Richard wants is something like Microsoft Word's > character insertion modal window. See > http://wordfaqs.mvps.org/images/SpecChars2.gif for an example. > > You select a subset of characters in a character set (e.g. Greek > letters) and are shown a modal window with visual representations of all > the characters. You can then choose a character to insert into the > document. Word lets you choose a _script_ (more accurately, a Unicode block which supports a specific script), not a language. E.g., you won't find "Turkish" there, because there's no such block in Unicode. Displaying characters for a language is a more fine-grained task.