GNU bug report logs - #29837
UTF-16 char display problems and the macOS "character palette"

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>

Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2017 16:02:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>

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From: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 29837 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29837: UTF-16 char display problems and the macOS "character palette"
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2017 18:23:21 +0000

On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 06:56:29PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > An example is 'šŸ¢«' (RIGHTWARDS FRONT-TILTED SHADOWED WHITE ARROW). If I
> > enter it using Cā€x 8 RET, it appears correctly, but if I use the
> > character palette it shows up as two blank spaces. Describe-char
> > reveals these to be HIGH SURROGATE-D83E and LOW SURROGATE-DCAB, in
> > that order.
> 
> You need to tell Emacs that keyboard input is in UTF-16.  Did you try
> "C-x RET k"?

I have now but I canā€™t find a utf-16 option that is ā€˜suitableā€™ for
keyboard input.

-- 
Alan Third
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