From: Xah Lee on
Played with unicode too much in the past few days.

just wrote a simple unicode browser mode today:

• xub Unicode Browser mode for Emacs
http://xahlee.org/emacs/unicode-browser.html

Summary: When this mode is on, pressing the arrow keys will move
cursor and display info about the character under cursor. Pressing
mouse left button on a character also works.

There are currently 3 unicode files on the site. One of them is all
arrow characters in unicode. There are right now about 480 of them,
and this file is fairly complete.

The idea is that the mode would eventually become a character
pallette. So users can browse the full range of unicode chars to find
chars they want. (inspired by Mac OS X's Character Palette)

feedback and correction welcome.

Right now, what is needed is sample unicode files.

In particular, i need complete sets of alphabets of most european
languages.
Also, alphabets of Japanese, Korean.
And also alphabets of popular indian languages, and Arabics.

Credit will be given, of course.

Thanks.

Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

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From: Xah Lee on
On Jun 20, 7:02 am, Xah Lee <xah...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Played with unicode too much in the past few days.
>
> just wrote a simple unicode browser mode today:
>
> • xub Unicode Browser mode for Emacs
> http://xahlee.org/emacs/unicode-browser.html

new version 1.1 is out. This version added a menu, added command to
increase/decrease font size, fixed a first-time mouse click problem.

Also, now the site contains several files of unicode that are fairly
complete for practical use. Chars most popular euro langs, all sort of
letter like symbols or tech symbols, symbols for Math, all sort of
arrows, dingbats, braille.

still needed are files of japanese and korean alphabets, and some
other south asian langs such as Hindi, Malay, Tamil, Tagalog... (see
the site for detail)

I'll probably be working on this mode and associated files in the
coming weeks, so won't be bugging you all for new updates.

Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

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