Re: AproposUnicode

[Janusz S. Bień]

On Mon, Dec 28 2020 at 10:11 -08, Drew Adams wrote:
>> > Only partly related to this thread, and just FYI.
>> > My library `apu.el' (Apropos Unicode) can sometimes
>> > help with showing info about Unicode chars.
>>
>> I've made a quick test and looks like I would like it, but it seems that
>> you completely ignore private use characters. For example,  U+E8BF
>> described by ‘describe-char’ as general-category: Co (Other, Private
>> Use) is completely ignored by `describe-chars-in-region'.
>
> Thanks for trying it.
>
> First, I'm no expert on Unicode, by any means.
>
> I use `get-char-code-property' to check for Unicode
> chars, checking properties `name' and `old-name':
>
> (or (get-char-code-property character 'name)
>     (get-char-code-property character 'old-name))
>
> If a char doesn't have either of those properties
> then I flag it as not being a Unicode char.
>
> (Perhaps the message shouldn't say it's not a Unicode
> char.  I'm no expert on the terminology.  Perhaps it
> should just say that the char has no name.)

I see in the code the message

"The following chars are not recognized as Unicode:\n%s"

but it is not printed in the described situation. This seems to be just
a bug.

> Maybe you can suggest a code change to do something
> more like what you expect?  If so, please do.  Thx.

With pleasure. Should I do this off the list?

Best regards

Janusz

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