On Saturday, March 29, 2014 12:25:45 AM UTC+5:30, rand...@fastmail.us wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014, at 11:10, Rustom Mody wrote: > > Just out of curiosity how do/did you type that? > > When I see an exotic denizen from the unicode-universe I paste it into > > emacs and ask "Who are you?" > > But with your 'def' my emacs is going a bit crazy!
> Your emacs probably is using UCS-2 or UTF-16. The former can't handle > characters above 65535 at all, the latter stores them as if they were > two characters [so code that's not expecting them will handle them > incorrectly] My current diagnosis (with the help of more knowledgeable folks than myself) is that its a font problem. There simply doesn't exist a font (or more likely I dont know of) that - is readable - is scaleable - spans the whole 17*65536 unicode space At least out here: - gnu-unifont does not cover things outside BMP - dejavu seems to have some bugs -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
