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Re: Entering Unicode characters
From: |
Tianxiang Xiong |
Subject: |
Re: Entering Unicode characters |
Date: |
Tue, 26 Jan 2016 17:08:29 +0000 (UTC) |
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Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org> writes:
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> Completion schemes can make it easier to enter long names that you
> know. They are no use for me in entering unusual characters, because
> I don't know their names.
>
> I want a system that lets me choose them by seeing them on the screen.
> I want to specify a language or script and see all its characters.
>
> For instance, if I enter 'turkish' it should show me all the
> characters used in Turkish. Then I could pick the dotless i from the
> buffer.
>
> Would someone please implement this?
>
It seems that what Richard wants is something like Microsoft Word's
character insertion modal window. See
http://wordfaqs.mvps.org/images/SpecChars2.gif for an example.
You select a subset of characters in a character set (e.g. Greek
letters) and are shown a modal window with visual representations of all
the characters. You can then choose a character to insert into the
document.
In Emacs, of course, we don't have modal windows, but we can have
buffers that display the characters line-by-line.
- Re: Entering Unicode characters, (continued)
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- Re: Entering Unicode characters, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/01/26
- Re: Entering Unicode characters, Richard Stallman, 2016/01/26
- RE: Entering Unicode characters, Drew Adams, 2016/01/26
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Tianxiang Xiong <=
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