Questions tagged [unicode]
Unicode is a standard for the encoding, representation and handling of text with the intention of supporting all the characters required for written text incorporating all writing systems, technical symbols and punctuation.
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Unicode commands in shell
I am using Emacs 31.0.50 in Windows. I have a shell command string which includes some unicode characters in its arguments. I can run this command in Windows command prompt without any problems. But I ...
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Why are some unicode characters omitted from the TeX input method?
I wanted to understand the rationale for why COMBINING RIGHT ARROW ABOVE (?⃗ here over a question mark) is not included in quail-define-rules in the TeX input method, defined in the file lisp/leim/...
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How does font substitution work for unicode combining characters?
I'm trying to understand how to get emacs to properly combine unicode combining characters when doing font substitution. Here is a concrete example. On my mac, I start emacs -Q, and try to display the ...
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Right alt/option on a macOS in GNU Emacs
I'm in a process of setting up macOS and GNU Emacs. The problem I have is that right option (that work like alt) don't allow to type special Polish diactric characters like śćń. I can type them ...
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How to enter an h with a dot underneath: ḥ
Is there any way to enter this character: ḥ (U+1E25, LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH DOT BELOW) via the C-x 8 prefix, or some other shortcut (other than by entering the codepoint itself, which I never ...
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How to remove the 'line breakable' property for all the thousands of Chinese characters?
For a given Chinese character, C-u C-x = (what-cursor-position DETAIL) says category: .:Base, C:2-byte han, L:Strong L2R, c:Chinese, j:Japanese, |:line breakable How can I remove the 'line breakable'...
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How to break CJK only after punctuation, not between characters?
$ emacs file.html We have one long line, with no ASCII whitespace to break on. Before: weeklyOSM 的想法是蒐集來自世界各地,與 OSM 相關的新聞,處理這些新聞並將其翻譯成盡可能多種語言。這應該有助於讓社群知道所有消息並克服語言障礙。 Do M-q (fill-paragraph), getting:...
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Can I set color for a unicode range?
I'd like to be able to set the background color on different Unicode ranges. For example: This is some 𝔢𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔦𝔞𝔩 𝓴𝓷𝓸𝔀𝓵𝓮𝓭𝓰𝓮. might become something like: This is some 𝓴𝓷𝓸𝔀𝓵𝓮𝓭...
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Is there a package to search and insert an unicode character?
I would like to execute a command which then shows a searchable list of unicode characters. In that list I want to see the character and its name. I can filter that list by name. Then I can select a ...
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describe-char renders the character, but not the buffer
I put some unicode text in a buffer and it looks like this: But if I move to that box and run M-x describe-char I see it rendered correctly at the bottom, next to "decomposition". So, Emacs ...
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Can't save file that contain German character ß in Emacs?
I'm trying to save a file in Emacs that contain ß. This is name Wißkirchen. When I try to save, got this error: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-missing "Loading charset map" "Nie ma ...
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Should column-number-mode count glyphs instead of bytes?
I noticed today that column-number-mode seems to count bytes in the underlying character encoding, or something similar, instead of user-visible glyphs. For example, on this line: foo ☕ bar ...when ...
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How to configure Emacs to display missing Unicode symbols
I am using Emacs 28.2 on Windows ("GNU Emacs 28.2 (build 2, x86_64-w64-mingw32)"). It has Unicode support for many characters, but some seem to be missing. For example the Unicode character “...
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Unicode displayed incorrectly
I recently discovered set-input-method TeX and really like it! But I noticed that certain characters are displayed incorrectly. For example, ₘ is displayed as a superscript ⊕ to me: To reproduce: ...
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Multilingual LaTeX pdf export
I have an org mode file with a mix of Bengali and English text, which I got to work using Adib Hasan's solution here: #+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage[banglamainfont=Kalpurush, banglattfont=Akaash, feature=...