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: Any objection to adding a unicode footnote style? (encoding fixed) Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 10:31:09 +0300 Message-ID: <83wrhzggg2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83oc3djmda.fsf@gnu.org> <83k4e1jesg.fsf@gnu.org> <83bozcjqu9.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1305012674 7478 80.91.229.12 (10 May 2011 07:31:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 07:31:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Leo Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 10 09:31:11 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QJhPS-0005FX-I5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 May 2011 09:31:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42637 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QJhPS-0007yn-1e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 May 2011 03:31:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:40142) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QJhPO-0007yh-Su for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 May 2011 03:31:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QJhPN-0001SV-Va for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 May 2011 03:31:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:63547) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QJhPN-0001SM-MG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 May 2011 03:31:05 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LKY00B00Y0AQ600@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 May 2011 10:31:03 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.228.234.175]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LKY00BPVY7Q4RA0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Tue, 10 May 2011 10:31:03 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:139298 Archived-At: > From: Leo > Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 13:09:59 +0800 >=20 > > Are we willing to bet that the default font is a Unicode font for= most > > users? If not, perhaps at least some caveat in the doc string is= in > > order. >=20 > How about adding something like this to the doc-string: >=20 > diff --git a/lisp/mail/footnote.el b/lisp/mail/footnote.el > index dc967ec8..1a60a333 100644 > --- a/lisp/mail/footnote.el > +++ b/lisp/mail/footnote.el > @@ -337,6 +337,10 @@ (defcustom footnote-style 'numeric > unicode =3D=3D =B9, =B2, =B3, ... > See also variables `footnote-start-tag' and `footnote-end-tag'. > =20 > +NB: some characters in the latin and unicode style may not be > +shown properly if the default font does not contain those > +characters. Something like that, although I would suggest to mention only Unicode= , as Latin characters can be assumed to be universally available. Also= , I think we use "Note", not "NB".