Re: how to make unicode 6 chars show in emacs?

["B. T. Raven" <btraven@nihilo.net>]

Die Sun Apr 29 2012 14:56:03 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) Xah Lee
<xahlee@gmail.com> scripsit:

> 
> Unicode 6 is now supported in emacs 24. For example, call ucs-insert
> 【Ctrl+x 8 Enter】 then “GRINNING CAT FACE WITH SMILING EYES”, then you
> get this char 😸.
> 
> however, emacs doesn't show the char unless you explicitly switch to a
> font (Symbola) that contains the char. But the grinning cat shows in
> browsers.

That's normal. It even shows in this email for those who have Symbola
font installed. Even Aegyptus 133E3 hieroglyph will show up in Emacs if
I change the buffer font to Aegyptus and then do ucs-insert. (ver. 23.3)
> 
> is there anything one can do for this?

Maybe fontsets. I don't know anything about them though. I assume they
work in w32 build also with ttf fonts. M-x list-fontsets shows only
these here (really not composite sets):

Fontset: -outline-Arial Unicode
MS-normal-normal-normal-sans-13-*-*-*-p-*-fontset-auto1
Fontset: -outline-Arial Unicode
MS-normal-normal-normal-sans-14-*-*-*-p-*-fontset-auto2
Fontset: -outline-Courier
New-normal-normal-normal-mono-16-*-*-*-c-*-fontset-auto3
Fontset: -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-default
Fontset: -*-courier new-normal-r-*-*-13-*-*-*-c-*-fontset-standard
Fontset: -outline-Courier
New-normal-normal-normal-mono-13-*-*-*-c-*-fontset-startup


> 
> does emacs rely on OS's font substitution tech or does it has its own?

I think it relies on the OS. I don't see any functions for that on my
install.


Ed

> 
> ( link to Symbola font http://xahlee.org/comp/unicode_6_emoticons.html
> )
> 
>  Xah
>