From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jambunathan K Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get the script name symbols of a specific character? Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 03:16:53 +0530 Message-ID: <87ip5yo75e.fsf@gmail.com> References: <5117C3FC.5020608@gmail.com> <87bobr13v8.fsf@gmail.com> <51190927.7070807@gmail.com> <878v6ur5cn.fsf@gmail.com> <837gme62av.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1360619258 20707 80.91.229.3 (11 Feb 2013 21:47:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:47:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 11 22:47:57 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1U51EB-0002BM-OW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:47:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52110 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U51Ds-00081z-Jk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:47:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52716) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U51Di-00081P-Lj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:47:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U51De-0006CL-6j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:47:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-da0-f49.google.com ([209.85.210.49]:42699) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U51Dd-0006BZ-V7; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:47:22 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-da0-f49.google.com with SMTP id t11so2883701daj.22 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:47:20 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to :message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=RFagrihuZ6y4AT5bHdX1JsD+pe+yG5QJhbG20eliqgM=; b=yu5AUawGNIyv7et8pqtHDCioNXUfV0EejZzU5tplz4tAyvc/Tl2HYmYwJ6njnyE1ZD aFUulvVwzIgKTHQ4cstxd5x4ODrs2h027T9oNYiSGz6toEYXf6dAQ8c6P/uSAVlJvb7I M0xWOYBZPZpcKwyKPLbOAOt/CuKKb7ggOcBpL7iseNsLCryQGpVyulrdUjGawYGkzYcp 0hXcAduIcjSe17O5CDRIMlRnhac0g4v0gM5sbMECOuzvG9NjJ7mc2VQOHeVleeKeQplv b/5m1/B/IrF18kX0sNmHxfGwXk7aTgpyY/lKboNBi6pnDmN55JPSBgfrEfNAazW6GFja TIVw== X-Received: by 10.66.82.67 with SMTP id g3mr44464759pay.58.1360619240540; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:47:20 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from debian-6.05 ([115.242.166.47]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t6sm69428549paz.11.2013.02.11.13.47.17 (version=TLSv1.1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:47:19 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <837gme62av.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:08:56 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.210.49 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:89081 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii 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 ... --