From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
To: YE Qianchuan <stool.ye@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to get the script name symbols of a specific character?
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:04:03 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bobr13v8.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5117C3FC.5020608@gmail.com> (YE Qianchuan's message of "Sun, 10 Feb 2013 23:59:56 +0800")
YE Qianchuan <stool.ye@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi, all.
>
> According to the document of `set-fontset-font', its argument TARGET can
> be a charset or a script name symbol. But I failed to find any
> documents about script name symbols. What I found that seem relevant
> are variables `charset-script-alist', `script-representative-chars'
> and `char-script-table'. However none of them tells me the details of
> those scripts, I can only guess by their names.
>
> My case is, for example, a set of unicode characters are displayed as
> hex boxes. I want to assign a proper font to display them. Specifying
> TARGET to unicode is not a good idea IMHO. I'd better find their
> script name symbol as TARGET, like `Han' for CJK characters.
>
> In practice, by calling `describe-char', I get which charset is
> corresponding to this character. So I can specify it to modify its
> font. However, I can't find a method to get a character's script name
> symbols.
Put your cursor on the box and type
C-u C-x =
It will give more useful pointers. The codepoint of a particular
character. The name of the character, in the example below is prefixed
by the script it comes from etc.
,----
| position: 192 of 196 (97%), column: 0
| character: ஜ (displayed as ஜ) (codepoint 2972, #o5634, #xb9c)
| preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
| code point in charset: 0x0B9C
| syntax: w which means: word
| category: .:Base, L:Left-to-right (strong)
| to input: type "ja" with tamil-itrans input method
| buffer code: #xE0 #xAE #x9C
| file code: #xE0 #xAE #x9C (encoded by coding system utf-8)
| display: by this font (glyph code)
| xft:-unknown-Lohit Tamil-normal-normal-normal-*-24-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1 (#x44)
|
| Character code properties: customize what to show
| name: TAMIL LETTER JA
| general-category: Lo (Letter, Other)
| decomposition: (2972) ('ஜ')
|
| There are text properties here:
| fontified t
`----
Also you may want to look at this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_block
>
> How can I achieve this? Do I miss something?
> Thanks for your help.
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-11 11:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-10 15:59 How to get the script name symbols of a specific character? YE Qianchuan
2013-02-11 2:55 ` Jambunathan K
2013-02-11 10:48 ` YE Qianchuan
2013-02-11 11:00 ` Jambunathan K
2013-02-11 14:50 ` YE Qianchuan
2013-02-11 11:34 ` Jambunathan K [this message]
2013-02-11 15:07 ` YE Qianchuan
2013-02-11 15:17 ` YE Qianchuan
2013-02-11 19:57 ` Jambunathan K
2013-02-11 20:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-11 21:46 ` Jambunathan K
2013-02-11 15:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-02-12 15:22 ` YE Qianchuan
2013-02-11 20:11 ` T.F. Torrey
2013-02-12 15:12 ` YE Qianchuan
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