From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Entering Unicode characters Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 09:15:46 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455114081 18423 80.91.229.3 (10 Feb 2016 14:21:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 14:21:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eller.helmut@gmail.com, johnw@gnu.org, flexibeast@gmail.com, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Elias =?utf-8?Q?M=C3=A5rtenson?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 10 15:21:12 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 1aTVdk-0006nH-2B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 15:21:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39699 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTVdj-0003un-9x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 09:21:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36234) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTVdf-0003uX-5Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 09:21:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTVdb-0005O0-7Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 09:21:03 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:36998) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTVYZ-0003mk-EZ; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 09:15:47 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aTVYY-0006zV-DY; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 09:15:46 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Elias =?utf-8?Q?M=C3=A5rtenson?= on Wed, 10 Feb 2016 12:14:36 +0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:199692 Archived-At: [[[ 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. ]]] > I know this can't be used in a summary screen containing more than one > character, but how about drawing a bitmap version of the character? If you > use a, say, 32×32 grid you can represent pretty much anything. I can > envision this being a useful thing to include in the C-u C-x = output. > At least this would allow a user on an ASCII terminal (or even one on a > graphical terminal with incomplete fonts) to see what a character looks > like. It would be useful to be able to see a character that way, but it would have to work via requesting to see one specific character. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.