Re: Fraktur in plain-text?

[David Kastrup]

Karlin High <address@hidden> writes:

> On 1/24/2018 4:34 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
>>   { 𝖆 𝖇 𝖈 𝖉 𝖊 𝖋 𝖌 𝖍 𝖎 𝖐 𝖑 𝖒 𝖓 𝖔 𝖕 }
>
> How did you do that, David?

Probably a copy&paste from a Unicode table of math fraktur code points.
Emacs identifies the first of the above as

             position: 488 of 866 (56%), restriction: <195-867>, column: 7
            character: 𝖆 (displayed as 𝖆) (codepoint 120198, #o352606, #x1d586)
    preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
code point in charset: 0x1D586
               script: mathematical
               syntax: w        which means: word
             category: .:Base, L:Left-to-right (strong)
             to input: type "C-x 8 RET 1d586" or "C-x 8 RET MATHEMATICAL BOLD 
FRAKTUR SMALL A"
          buffer code: #xF0 #x9D #x96 #x86
            file code: #xF0 #x9D #x96 #x86 (encoded by coding system 
utf-8-emacs-unix)
              display: by this font (glyph code)
    xft:-PfEd-Unifont Upper-normal-normal-normal-*-15-*-*-*-d-0-iso10646-1 
(#x156D)

Character code properties:
  name: MATHEMATICAL BOLD FRAKTUR SMALL A
  general-category: Ll (Letter, Lowercase)
  decomposition: (font 97) (font 'a')

> I'm using Thunderbird here, I think it has the Consolas font for
> plain-text email. That quoted text comes through as pretty first-rate
> Fraktur letters, which I sure wasn't expecting to see in a plain-text
> email.

Unicode has a lot of codepoints.  I mean, there are even things like

🗽

which you need to display in a large font to even have a chance at
recognizing.  In my default font size it looks like some sort of camel
or space invaders attacker.

-- 
David Kastrup