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

[Christopher Dimech]

> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2021 at 8:00 PM
> From: "Yuri Khan" <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
> To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>, "help-gnu-emacs" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: Unicode fonts - Re: Why do I find ^L in elisp code?
>
> 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.
 
Talking about mathematical expressions, texinfo does not format symbols in bold.