Questions tagged [unicode]
Unicode is a standard for the encoding, representation and handling of text with the intention of supporting all the characters required for written text incorporating all writing systems, technical symbols and punctuation.
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Is there a package to search and insert an unicode character?
I would like to execute a command which then shows a searchable list of unicode characters. In that list I want to see the character and its name. I can filter that list by name. Then I can select a ...
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describe-char renders the character, but not the buffer
I put some unicode text in a buffer and it looks like this:
But if I move to that box and run M-x describe-char I see it rendered correctly at the bottom, next to "decomposition". So, Emacs ...
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Can't save file that contain German character ß in Emacs?
I'm trying to save a file in Emacs that contain ß. This is name Wißkirchen. When I try to save, got this error:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-missing "Loading charset map" "Nie ma ...
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Should column-number-mode count glyphs instead of bytes?
I noticed today that column-number-mode seems to count bytes in the underlying character encoding, or something similar, instead of user-visible glyphs. For example, on this line:
foo ☕ bar
...when ...
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How to configure Emacs to display missing Unicode symbols
I am using Emacs 28.2 on Windows ("GNU Emacs 28.2 (build 2, x86_64-w64-mingw32)"). It has Unicode support for many characters, but some seem to be missing.
For example the Unicode character “...
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Unicode displayed incorrectly
I recently discovered set-input-method TeX and really like it! But I noticed that certain characters are displayed incorrectly. For example, ₘ is displayed as a superscript ⊕ to me:
To reproduce:
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Multilingual LaTeX pdf export
I have an org mode file with a mix of Bengali and English text, which I got to work using Adib Hasan's solution here:
#+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage[banglamainfont=Kalpurush, banglattfont=Akaash, feature=...
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How to ignore accents (À Â É Ê etc.) when sorting?
When sorting text with Emacs, the result is wrong for accented characters:
Always
Emerald
Yesterday
Zoo
À la campagne
Âge
Écarlate
Être
Here is the result I would like instead:
À la campagne
Âge
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Visual corruption in terminal-emacs
I run Emacs in my terminal, which is primarily kitty on macOS, but I'm experiencing the same (what I'm about to describe) with other terminal emulators:
In my shell LANG is en_US.UTF-8 and I have ...
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insert-char completion says no matches, but inserts character anyway?
I'm using C-x 8 RET to insert a Unicode character. I enter the hex value -- for example, 201c -- and the minibuffer says "no matches". But if I just hit enter, the expected left double quote ...
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Unicode Line and Paragraph Separator is Not Properly Supported
Emacs is displaying Unicode LINE SEPARATOR and PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR (PS) as rectangle. PS also does not end a paragraph. How can I make emacs treat these characters properly?
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Programmatically invoking insert-char for compatibility with unicode insertion in Linux
I'm trying to enter unicode chars in emacs in the same manner I can anywhere else in linux, with the C-S-u string shortcut.
Unfortunately, the function I've written does not work.
(defun insert-char-c ...
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Way to keybind «» in Emacs
I would like to be able to keybind « and » to easy key bindings.
At the moment in Emacs the only way to write these latin quotation marks is this:
C-x 8 < and C-x 8 >
I tried the following, but ...
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Unicode characters missing only in Emacs
A few unicode characters are missing from my Emacs (GNU Emacs 28.2 on macOS 11.6.8.).
They are displayed everywhere else on my system just fine, but in Emacs they look like this:
(Same character in ...
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Why do I have Chinese/Mandarin characters in my mode-line and e-shell out of the blue? How do I fix this?
I have been using Emacs for a while. As you can see in my config file (whole file), there is a snippet to provide a Doom mode line:
(use-package doom-modeline
:init (doom-modeline-mode 1)
:custom (...
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Insert Unicode in GUI Emacs and Xorg
I see that for GUI Emacs, we should use ucsc-insert (C-x 8 RET), but this is totally different than under xorg, where we use Control-Shift-u.
Do we have a method that would work in both?
The reason I'...
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How to convert greek text to unicode using matching input method?
Good evening,
I have a large TeX-file with Greek inclusions in traditional babel way: \textgreek{sunj'hkh|}. I would like to convert it to unicode for further work. Emacs has greek-babel input method,...
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How to represent guillemets in `org-mode`: Unicode vs Org-mode entities)?
I was planning to write some narrative in Emacs, and after a bit of research it seems that the most complete solution may be org-mode. Now, I report direct speech using guillemets (« and »). The ...
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Emacs 27.2 not rendering Devanagari fonts properly
I am having problems with Devanagari fonts in Emacs 27.2. I am using the Noto Sans Devanagari font to render the devanagari unicode font block.
When I first start emacs up, everything works fine and ...
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How to print character code in UTF-8 (ie ASCII codes)
With
(let ((c (char-after (point))))
I get the code of the current character, and if I just do
(message "%X" c)
it prints the hexadecimal UTF-16 apparently. Is there a simple way to get ...
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Why am i getting this "E926" character on my dashboard?
Why am i getting this E926 in my Emacs dashboard and how can I fix this?
dashboard is an Emacs package - https://github.com/emacs-dashboard/emacs-dashboard.
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How to disable Emacs bidi?
I want to disable Emacs from ever displaying text right-to-left (i.e. ignore Unicode control sequences to change text orientation). How to do it?
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Buffer display issue with unicode characters on WSL2
I have a file with a single Unicode character in it: 🕯 (Unicode character CANDLE, codepoint 128367, #o372557, #x1f56f).
When I open this file via emacs -Q and hit C-l, the display buffer has issues. ...
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How to replace unicode in emacs?
I'm using spacemacs, and am wondering how you do certain commands like replace and align with respect to unicode (particularly relevant for Agda development).
For instance, → has the \to shortcut in ...
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Characters in unicode-smp charset have no glyphs in Emacs 27.1, debian buster, using MesloLGS NF font
I'm using Gnu Emacs 27.1 GTK on Debian 10 from buster-backports. I'm also using the MesloLGS NF font that ships with zsh powerlevel10k, and has a heck of a lot of unicode characters. Nonetheless, ...
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Problem in emacs-chess when I am using unicode symbols
When I configured chess to use unicode, it's not rendering properly.
Below is the configuration I am using for chess
(setq chess-default-display 'chess-plain)
(setq chess-default-engine 'chess-...
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Display LaTeX-Quotation marks as unicode characters
When quoting in auctex, I use the strings "` and "' to typeset „ and “, respectively. Now, I want emacs to display the corresponding unicode characters to these strings. I've tried it with ...
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How can I force a Hebrew font to match the fixed width of Latin text characters in a mono font
I have setup my Emacs to use Noto Sans Mono everywhere. I did this on the naïve assumption that it was in fact a mono-spaced font, with full coverage of Hebrew and Greek Extended characters. ...
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Custom search for text under cursor
I would like to write a custom elisp function that searches for a few variants of unicode text under a cursor and highlights their occurrences in the currently open file.
For e.g. if my text is ...
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How to properly align org table with mixed English-Bengali script?
I am unable to tidy up this table, so that last column is properly aligned, as the other two:
|-----------+----------------+------------|
| English | Bengali s. | Bengali w. |
|-----------+------...
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Adding unicode special characters
I wanted to add a latin capital O with circumflex [ô] to a file in emacs, but for some reason all my attempts lead to the character being replaced by a question mark ?. I tried :
M-x insert-char ...
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Problems with COMBINING OVERLINE unicode rendering in Emacs 27.1
[Emacs 27.1 from manjaro arch]
Hi,
can anyone help me with the following? I'd like to render "x bar" (x with a horizontal bar) above it in unicode. I can get in Emacs 27.1, using monaco (...
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Override the default font for emoji characters
My fonts setup is
(setq default-frame-alist '((font . "DejaVu Sans Mono-10")))
(defun my-emoji-fonts ()
(set-fontset-font t 'symbol "Twemoji")
(set-fontset-font t 'symbol &...
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How to open a file which looks like unicode in emacs
I have a file in my C: drive on Windows named MSDELog.log and from opening the file with a hex editor I can see that there is a null character after each character. But there is no indicator at the ...
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Penguin character in file
I use Spacemacs. I tried to type a command, but I mistyped. Instead of what I intended, a character was inserted that renders as this:
I suppose that is Tux. When I try to copy the character, I get ...
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Why unicode 🂩 (poker card) can't be properly displayed in GUI but fine in TUI?
I'm having a hard time getting unicode to properly displayed in GUI.
I'm trying to type poker cards unicode inside emacs GUI, 🂩 for instance. I would like to use font "Ubuntu Mono",
NOT ...
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Paste very specific Unicode in scratch buffer freezes emacs -Q
I experienced a freeze which can be reproduced very easily on GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.18, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2020-08-25 .
emacs -Q
Copy the Unicode U+...
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Use LaTeX accents with tex insert method
With this answer I learned how to insert math symbols with latex syntax directly into my buffer.
What I can't figure out is how to make accents insert properly. I want \hat{\beta} to insert beta hat ( ...
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How to insert mathematical symbols in emacs
I'm writing an Asciidoctor file to take notes for statistics and would like to insert mathematical symbols like β.
Is there any way to do this without copy and pasting?
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Ignore meta key when inputting unicode on OSX
I'm a newbie running emacs 26.3 (9.0) on OSX in the graphical mode (i.e. not in the terminal) and am writing a document with Devanagari (sanskrit text).
Some of the letters in the inbuilt devanagari ...
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Uppercase instead of lowercase Greek letter shown in Julia mode
I am writing Julia code in Emacs, which allows the use of unicode characters in the source code. However, some symbols come out looking weird. For example the Greek letter nu:
becomes:
Does anyone ...
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Emacs -nw prints Turkish characters incorrectly
I use Emacs 25.2.1 on a Windows XP Laptop with a Turkish keyboard.
Problem
On emacs -nw the following (non-ascii) letters print incorrectly:
Letters such as 'ö' and 'ü' which are also used in German ...
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How can you automatically translate fractions into their short unicode versions? e.g. ⅔
Ideally one can just type fractions as normally e.g. 2/3, and either the view simply displays it as ⅔, without changing the text itself OR the text itself is changed. I need this for org mode in case ...
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How to use unicode character for truncation and wrap slots in the standard display table
I'm trying to set unicode characters for the truncation and wrap slots in the standard display table (see code below) that are used in terminal mode or GUI when there is no fringe. It is working for ...
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unicode-fonts help needed
Any experts in the unicode-fonts package out there?
What I am trying to do is set the font for CJK characters and not use the default.
This seems very tough! Using the customize interface injected ...
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How to enter overlined characters?
Example: R̅E̅S̅
What I already tried, to no avail: Type R, followed by C-x 8 RET OVERLINE RET
What works but is not nice: Copy the example above and edit it.
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How to regex match words? (in multiple languages)
I have a simple regex search which matches [A-Za-z], however I would like it to match other characters which would be used in dictionary words for non-english languages. e.g. ü, Ø, ɵ 人参, while ...
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Unicode input from keyboard (QMK) to Emacs
I have setup my QMK-enabled keyboard to output Unicode characters. In short, that was adding UNICODE_ENABLE = yes line to the rules.mk file and adding the following two lines to the config.h file.
#...
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mail attachment filename coding
I try to use mu4e with smtpmail to send mail, and use mml-attach-file to add attachment.
If the attachment filename contains non-english name, such as Chinese, the header of message will become ...
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Problem with emacs and sagemath unicode
I am using Emacs (GNU Emacs 24.5.1, which is admittedly old, but the problem also exists on a newer (25 something) Emacs on a different machine) and sage-shell-mode to work with the computer algebra ...
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