hexadecimal unicode input ?

hexadecimal unicode input ?

[Thomas Langen]

AFAIK the function insert-ucs-character allows only decimal numbers as 
argument for unicode characters. This is rather uncomfortable, as those 
characters are normally given as hexadecimal codes.

Is there a way to give the hex code as argument for any method to insert 
a unicode character?

Or does anybody know a better workaround than to convert manually from 
hex to dec?

hexadecimal unicode input ?

[Thomas Langen]

AFAIK the function insert-ucs-character allows only decimal numbers as 
argument for unicode characters. This is rather uncomfortable, as those 
characters are normally given as hexadecimal codes.

Is there a way to give the hex code as argument for any method to insert 
a unicode character?

Or does anybody know a better workaround than to convert manually from 
hex to dec?

Re: hexadecimal unicode input ?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Thomas Langen <langen@langensoft.de>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 19:49:28 +0200
> 
> AFAIK the function insert-ucs-character allows only decimal numbers as 
> argument for unicode characters.

Really?  Did you try to say #x1234, for example?

Re: hexadecimal unicode input ?

[Thomas Langen]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>From: Thomas Langen <langen@langensoft.de>
>>Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
>>Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 19:49:28 +0200
>>
>>AFAIK the function insert-ucs-character allows only decimal numbers as 
>>argument for unicode characters.
> 
> 
> Really?  Did you try to say #x1234, for example?
> 
> 

Thank you, that's the solution I was looking for - is it documented 
anywhere? (I had tried 0x1234, 1234h, and some other combinations I 
could imagine - they all didn't work.)

Maybe some extended help on the mule-ucs function "insert-ucs-character" 
would be useful.

Re: hexadecimal unicode input ?

[Oliver Scholz]

Thomas Langen <langen@langensoft.de> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>>From: Thomas Langen <langen@langensoft.de>
>>>Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
>>>Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 19:49:28 +0200
>>>
>>> AFAIK the function insert-ucs-character allows only decimal numbers
>>> as argument for unicode characters.
>> Really?  Did you try to say #x1234, for example?
>> 
>
> Thank you, that's the solution I was looking for - is it documented
> anywhere? (I had tried 0x1234, 1234h, and some other combinations I
> could imagine - they all didn't work.)
>
> Maybe some extended help on the mule-ucs function
> "insert-ucs-character" would be useful.

This is not a feature of any specific function. It is a feature of the
Lisp reader. You can use hexadezimal, octal or binary notation
anywhere in Emacs Lisp code:

(print 4660)
(print #x1234)
(print #o11064)
(print #b1001000110100)

    Oliver
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Re: hexadecimal unicode input ?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Thomas Langen <langen@langensoft.de>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 09:33:32 +0200
> > 
> > Really?  Did you try to say #x1234, for example?
> 
> Thank you, that's the solution I was looking for - is it documented 
> anywhere?

See the node "Integer Basics" in the ELisp manual.

Re: hexadecimal unicode input ?

[Sergei Pokrovsky]

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Langen <langen@langensoft.de> writes:

  Thomas> Maybe some extended help on the mule-ucs function
  Thomas> "insert-ucs-character" would be useful.

BTW, does it make sense to install mule-ucs in Emacs-21.3 ?
Looks like most of its capabilities are there out of the box, while
mule-ucs was not updated since April 2001.

-- 
Sergei

Re: hexadecimal unicode input ?

[Thomas Langen]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> See the node "Integer Basics" in the ELisp manual.
> 
Shame on me, I had forgotten about that manual - thanks for your help 
(and to Oliver Scholz, too).