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

[Christopher Dimech]

> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2021 at 8:48 PM
> From: "Jean Louis" <bugs@gnu.support>
> To: "Yuri Khan" <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
> Cc: "help-gnu-emacs" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: Unicode fonts - Re: Why do I find ^L in elisp code?
>
> * Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> [2021-05-24 11:01]:
> > 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.
> 
> Those are built-in features. 
> 
> Social media is full of ◦•●❤♡ £åñ¢¥ Lꆆêr§ ♡❤●•◦ beyond the built-in
> features.
> 
> There is no need to constrain people in using Unicode symbols
> regardless for what they are meant. People may like symbols regardless
> of their meanings or political or scientific purposes.

You could use them for any purpose
 
> (•◡•)
> 
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