From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to get the script name symbols of a specific character?
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 03:16:53 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ip5yo75e.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <837gme62av.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:08:56 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> The names come from the Unicode character database (UCD) that is
> processed into a bunch of Emacs Lisp files and then preloaded into
> Emacs. The version of the Unicode database built into Emacs
> determines which codepoints have names and which don't.
In admin/unidata, I see only the following *.txt files
/home/kjambunathan/src/emacs/trunk/admin/unidata:
.
..
BidiMirroring.txt
UnicodeData.txt
There are a lot more files under
http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/
>> I think it would be useful to have one browse different Unicode Blocks
>> or have C-u C-x = report the block name of a character.
>
> If that data is not in the UCD, Emacs cannot know it, unless someone
> adds it to Emacs.
So this would involve massaging Blocks.txt from the above URL. Hm ...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-11 21:46 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
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 [this message]
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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