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Ah, cool function that I did not know about before, thank you! Any idea, why it does not list all unicode characters? For example, if I search for what charmap
by zelphirkalt 5y ago
Ah, cool function that I did not know about before, thank you! Any idea, why it does not list all unicode characters? For example, if I search for what charmap shows me as description of "你", "you, second person pronoun", then the results in Emacs are empty.
- jfk13 5y agoPresumably the lookup is based on Unicode character names. The name of "你" is CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4F60. Charmap must be showing you information from some sort of dictionary entry or similar, but that's not part of the identity or name of the Unicode character, any more than the name of the Unicode character U+0049 "I" is "first person singular pronoun" (it's actually named LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I); that's just what it happens to mean in one particular language.
- zelphirkalt 5y agoThat makes sense. A character might mean one thing in one language and another in another language. Even when I enter "4F60" it does not show up. Seems some ranges are missing.
- michaelmrose 5y agoHere is something else neat https://github.com/jeremija/unipicker https://github.com/jeremija/unipicker Can be run with --command="rofi -dmenu" to filter via rofi and piped to xdotool type to insert immediately