From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Unicode fonts - Re: Why do I find ^L in elisp code? Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 20:39:21 +0300 Message-ID: References: <87im3a5xqc.fsf@zoho.eu> <83h7iuj6i1.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="20267"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0.6 (2021-03-06) Cc: help-gnu-emacs To: Yuri Khan Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon May 24 19:53:33 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1llElh-00050A-DA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 24 May 2021 19:53:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57448 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1llElg-0005ed-3t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 24 May 2021 13:53:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57784) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1llEbk-0006nY-Lz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 May 2021 13:43:16 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:52663) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1llEbh-0006Ms-Le for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 May 2021 13:43:16 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:102.87.235.181]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000000ADF01.0000000060ABE5AC.00003538; Mon, 24 May 2021 10:43:07 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Yuri Khan , help-gnu-emacs Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:130189 Archived-At: * Yuri Khan [2021-05-24 17:37]: > No, they are letters of the Latin alphabet interpreted abstractly. > They are not even required to form words; as a string of mathematical > letterlike symbols, your “𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥” above might mean a > product of 12 vector variables and read accordingly: [em ei ti: eitch > i: em ei ti: si: ei el] in English, or [em uh te ush e em uh te i tse > uh el] in Russian (which borrows the pronunciation of single Latin > letters from French and/or German). Yes, that is what I meant Latin alphabet. I know those letters may have various meanings. Language is ever changing and so the written matter going with the language. We have now thousands of various Unicode symbols used worldwide. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns Sign an open letter in support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/