From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Entering Unicode characters Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 13:40:11 +0100 Message-ID: <87d1sobjkk.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <83twmkkv16.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453812029 29010 80.91.229.3 (26 Jan 2016 12:40:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 12:40:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Tianxiang Xiong , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 26 13:40:28 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 1aO2v6-00070l-LS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 13:40:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43401 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aO2v6-0000nG-2B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 07:40:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42143) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aO2v1-0000jz-FL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 07:40:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aO2v0-0006tc-Ce for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 07:40:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([2a01:5e00:2:52::8]:49647) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aO2v0-0006tH-53; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 07:40:22 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 463998F201D; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 13:40:18 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id e2ncjaOi-Sok; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 13:40:15 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (unknown [IPv6:2001:808:114:6:a288:b4ff:fe90:5e24]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4D5408F2016; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 13:40:15 +0100 (CET) User-agent: mu4e 0.9.13; emacs 25.1.50.1 In-reply-to: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 2a01:5e00:2:52::8 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:198846 Archived-At: On 2016-01-26, at 10:39, Richard Stallman wrote: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > Completion schemes can make it easier to enter long names that you > know. They are no use for me in entering unusual characters, because > I don't know their names. True, but often these names contain a word which is more or less obvious to guess. > 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? I like this idea, though I do not know enough about Unicode etc to implement it... Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University