[ILUG] Re: unicode characters

[Brian Foster]

 This question was sent to me privately, but I
 thought the answer would be useful to others,
 so I am sending it the list:

  | Which editor do you use that lets you put in the
  | code to produce the actual character to feed it
  | into nmh (I'm guessing) ?

 I myself use two different techniques.  (And yer
 basically correct, I usually compose my e-mail
 in an external editor — nominally vim(1) — run
 by the MH/nmh comp(1)/repl(1)/&tc commands.)

 One, which I hinted at in my previous posting,
 is ‘vim’s “digraph” feature.  Digraph's are
 two character sequences which are mapped to
 various UCS/Unicode characters.  You can see a
 list of available digraphs with the :-command:

   :digraph     (or :dig for short)

 The (default) way of entering a digraph is by
 typing control-K then the digraph; e.g., § is
 entered by <control-K>SE (§'s digraph is “SE”).
 (In ‘vim’, “:help digraph” for more information.)

 The other technique I use is gucharmap(1) (note
 the ‘u’ — NOT gcharmap, which is (was?) a similar
 but not-as-useful program), where it's just a
 matter of copy-and-paste.

 ‘vim’ isn't the only UCS-capable editor; others
 (that I have used on occasion) include ‘yudit’:

    http://www.yudit.org/

 and ‘mined’:

    http://towo.net/mined/

 (I haven't the faintest idea what the situation
 is with the emacs family?)

 And in principle, it should also be possible to
 use dead/compose key mappings.

cheers!
	-blf-
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