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Re: Entering Unicode characters


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: Entering Unicode characters
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 09:15:46 -0500

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  > I know this can't be used in a summary screen containing more than one
  > character, but how about drawing a bitmap version of the character? If you
  > use a, say, 32×32 grid you can represent pretty much anything. I can
  > envision this being a useful thing to include in the C-u C-x = output.

  > At least this would allow a user on an ASCII terminal (or even one on a
  > graphical terminal with incomplete fonts) to see what a character looks
  > like.

It would be useful to be able to see a character that way, but it
would have to work via requesting to see one specific character.

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