From: Jason Rumney <jasonrumney@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: describe-char/unicode confusion
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:41:28 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a5041b22-0f22-4789-9c6d-e516a0807c66@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8vkbh5FjuhU1@mid.individual.net>
On Friday, April 1, 2011 5:58:29 AM UTC+8, Eric Wolf wrote:
> If I use describe-char
> on "∅" it tells me, that
> this character has category
> j:japanese.
>
> Why? Ist in x2200 - x22FF of
> Unicode, which is Mathematical
> Operators ...
>
> I suspect that because of this,
> it gets displayed in a different
> font, then my default. Which would
> have a glyph for it.
AFAIU, coding category is not used for font selection, it is used to narrow down appropriate coding systems when a buffer has the coding system "undecided". Since this character is covered by the JISX-0208 standard, it gets the Japanese tag (along with most ASCII characters and many more that you might not consider Japanese).
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2011-03-31 21:58 describe-char/unicode confusion Eric Wolf
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