From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: where does emacs23 store the info that was UnicodeData.txt? Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:20:46 -0500 Message-ID: References: <2dbf8b79-30c4-4abb-8506-e8527d829777@13g2000prl.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1250138516 9944 80.91.229.12 (13 Aug 2009 04:41:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:41:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 13 06:41:45 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MbS8D-0002Ed-RE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:41:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55473 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MbS8B-0000t5-7p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:41:39 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!backlog2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.sysmatrix.net!news.sysmatrix.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:20:49 -0500 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <2dbf8b79-30c4-4abb-8506-e8527d829777@13g2000prl.googlegroups.com> Original-Lines: 32 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.73.129.114 Original-X-Trace: sv3-rkGr8w1YONrJzG4PXjuozBHAUh5DH5BYnSMhmenXGopnIECx8y7hfzUana+5ZTnWdvKgWMRM+ogSXYQ!f9deZKvFNS7U/ZA3tKHQARxQk/kboikFVNVUER9z7z4SZFDa88rK5jjeDTzQ0LgOtczErSpGbTGB!DY5kjBr0eYRg1vd/vtBEdYiRMG8I7fs= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sysmatrix.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.39 X-Original-Bytes: 2221 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:171935 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:67111 Xah Lee wrote: > in emacs 22, one can put in this unicode data file to emacs so that > what-cursor-position with C-u can give full info about a char: > > ; load unicode data; used by what-cursor-position for showing full > unicode info > (setq describe-char-unicodedata-file > (concat (file-name-directory > (or load-file-name buffer-file-name)) > "UnicodeData.txt" )) > > by looking at the output, it appears to me emacs 23 now has the full > info on unicode char without needing that file. > > Is that true? > > where does emacs get the data that was in UnicodeData.txt? > > thanks. > > Xah > ∑ http://xahlee.org/ > > ☄ The internal representation in ver. 23 is now Unicode, as far as I understand. On ver 22, ☄ would be reported as some "Emacs" byte sequence but on ver 23 it will give the actual U+XXXX code point for that glyph or character or whatever you call it. Ed