On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de>wrote:

>
> Am 18.07.2012 um 00:16 schrieb Dan Maftei:
>
> > Thanks for the describe-char output. Mine is working as expected.
> > (un-related: can you reproduce this bug?
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2012-07/msg00615.html)
>
> Not exactly. I get, in tcsh:
>
>         Fatal error (11)Abort (core dumped)
>         Exit 134
>
>
> > Speaking of the patch, I didn't download 24.1.1 on purpose: the newest
> > official version as obtained from the FTP site (
> > http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/) is listed as 24.1, which is what I used.
> I'm
> > not sure if a version 24.1.0 even exists... but I haven't dug through the
> > source repository much.
>
> The version number 24.1.1 has in the first two fields the major and the
> minor version number of GNU Emacs. GNU Emacs releases are identified by the
> major and minor version number. The last or right-most field is the number
> of your build, in this case your first try.
>
> So you used the right sources. Are you used to working on the command
> line? And to patch source files? Did you save the output from running
> configure? (In that case you could send me privately the output.)
>

Yes, I am. I'll reply privately.


>
> By putting that to your customisation:
>
>         '(read-quoted-char-radix 16)
>
> you could insert any Unicode character by typing C-q <the hex
> number><something non-hex like cursor movement, SPACE, RET, ESC)>. This
> worked to produce d͡.
>

C-x <RET> <4-digit hexadecimal code point> seems to have the exact same
results. (Is it still a "digit" if it's hexadecimal? :)

However, as expected, there is still the rendering problem with combining
characters, whichever input method I use.

As I said, I think there's nothing else to do but find a nice font as a
temporary workaround (or use the mac patch you linked). I will hold off a
little before filing a bug, but after this discussion, I can't see how it's
anything but.

Cheers,
Dan


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