From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>, ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: replacing some utf-8 characters on display
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 18:39:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bl3axvzp.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874k928nkl.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 27 Oct 2021 18:00:42 +0200")
>>>>> On Wed, 27 Oct 2021 18:00:42 +0200, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> said:
Lars> However, this may be confusing for some symbols, I think? Not for ⚠,
Lars> where it's aesthetic only, but I'm wondering whether there's, like, math
Lars> symbols that have the same VS-16 behaviour. (VS-16 means "use the emoji
Lars> glyph instead of the symbol glyph".)
If the math symbol + VS-16 results in an emoji glyph, itʼs not a math
symbol, itʼs an emoji :-) But there are emoji for things like
'multiply', 'divide' that you might not want to turn into fruit salad
in your email. How likely those are to be used instead of the 'normal'
characters I donʼt know.
Robert
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-27 16:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-27 15:53 Eric S Fraga
2021-10-27 16:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-27 16:04 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-10-27 16:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-27 16:21 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-10-27 16:39 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2021-10-28 22:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-03 10:33 ` Robert Pluim
2021-11-04 5:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-04 5:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-04 5:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-04 5:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-10 15:12 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-11-10 15:15 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-11-10 15:17 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-11-04 12:26 ` Eric S Fraga
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