Re: Unicode fonts - Re: Why do I find ^L in elisp code?

[Yuri Khan]

On Mon, 24 May 2021 at 02:18, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:

> > The characters you used above are not for human-readable text, they
> > are for mathematical formulas.  So it has nothing to do with fonts,
> > you simply use these characters incorrectly.
>
> That may be technically right.
>
> 𝐵ut 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝑁𝐸𝐸𝐷𝑆 it.

What it *wants* is a way to format text in bold, italic, monospace,
and strikethrough,
and so it *needs* HTML or Markdown support.
But it *has* plain text only
and so *asks for* reliable support for the Mathematical Alphanumeric
Symbols block of Unicode.