Re: gnus-registry-marks support

[Deepak Tripathi <deepak@gnumonk.com>]

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Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

Okay i will search and send it across.

> On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:50:48 +0530 Deepak Tripathi
> <deepak@gnumonk.com> wrote:
>
> DT> Yes i am interested, I have seen some of the icons but most of
> them are
> DT> copyrighted, if you have some free one you can choose those one. 
>
> Look at the Silk icon set and pick some.  It's pretty good.  I'll do
> the
> rest :)
>
> DT> Also we can keep something like 
> DT> ,----
> DT> | (setq gnus-registry-marks  
> DT> |       '((Important
> DT> |      :char ?✉
> DT> |      :image "summary_important")
> DT> `----
> DT> So if the people are on console with utf-8 enabled they can get
> nice
> DT> mail unicode icon.
>
> The problem is that if you don't have UTF-8 enabled it's broken (and
> there are many other console encodings, so we need general Unicode
> capability *and* font support for those characters).  So for now it
> has
> to be customized by the user.  Is there a way in GNU Emacs and XEmacs
> to
> find out if it's safe to output a specific Unicode character on the
> console?  I would assume not, since you can switch the terminal
> encoding
> and the font at any time in gnome-terminal at least.
>
> Maybe we could add a :unicode-char property and let the user enable
> Unicode output as a global option.  I don't think it's worthwhile but
> if
> people want it I'll add it.
No, no need to add this, anyway people can use unicode char if they want.
>
> Specifically for the Important mark, why use the ENVELOPE character?
> For general consumption would use something like the *EXCLAMATION*
> characters (FULLWIDTH EXCLAMATION MARK maybe), but essentially it's a
> matter of taste.  As I showed in my setup, I use Greek letters because
> I
> think they look nice in that context, but most people probably won't.
>
> The Silk icon set, OTOH, is pretty popular on the web so using it
> makes
> sense, and it already has some of the image lexicon we're looking for.
>
It was just an example. will send you appropriate one.
> Thanks
> Ted

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