From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79011 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Deepak Tripathi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus-registry-marks support Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 22:57:12 +0530 Organization: www.gnumonk.com Message-ID: <87oc2ho427.fsf@gnumonk.com> References: <87oc2w83w3.fsf@gnumonk.com> <87sjs3a56j.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87y61m7rbp.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87pqmxlunz.fsf@gnumonk.com> <87wrh5vgei.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1306949302 28101 80.91.229.12 (1 Jun 2011 17:28:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 17:28:22 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27311@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Jun 01 19:28:17 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QRpDI-00073F-PO for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:28:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QRpCi-0005H9-5b; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:27:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QRpCg-0005Gv-UL for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:27:34 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QRpCf-0006Km-TS for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:27:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pw0-f44.google.com ([209.85.160.44]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QRpCe-00032y-7s for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:27:32 +0200 Original-Received: by pwi5 with SMTP id 5so189792pwi.17 for ; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 10:27:26 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.68.29.229 with SMTP id n5mr3429324pbh.176.1306949245871; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 10:27:25 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from smtp.gmail.com ([117.192.253.82]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k4sm1243937pbl.43.2011.06.01.10.27.23 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 01 Jun 2011 10:27:25 -0700 (PDT) User-Mail-Address: deepak@gnumonk.com In-Reply-To: <87wrh5vgei.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:18:45 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -1.6 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79011 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ted Zlatanov writes: Okay i will search and send it across. > On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:50:48 +0530 Deepak Tripathi > 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.=20 > > 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=20 > DT> ,---- > DT> | (setq gnus-registry-marks=20=20 > DT> | '((Important > DT> | :char ?=E2=9C=89 > 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 =2D-=20 ,---- | Life's Too Short, Write Fast Code, Use emacs :)=20 | Deepak Tripathi(gnumonk) | irc: irc.debian.org | nick: deepak, gnumonk | irc: irc.freenode.com | nick: gnumonk | web: http://www.gnumonk.com=20 `---- --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJN5nZwAAoJEMTRaBp/IXsBI6UP/jPdxoLGmahgMPpsdgES5vM2 K5Ny/6zMT9pM7qGqd7CLJswm48rU6wrw/rHvt8J7Hlx5uZH00brWRBOZydl0QmfS V8JaX+ZXeHSHAIwcjzsbKePiuddYK27H2gMO4uqC35+Z6/goZhIvVkq1TMfvYXHF /KaMUNWsid86scB+XoZ1oynjoftXpasiqqN2rPscwH7p/Bo+qI30xyxxQti8r0F9 deqRFxXx08GtgLlc+1IH0hp+im0uEssgSzW4ezeUMJ+4jNzGOOGft0FwEjbyyby2 uB1jlqXdRUMiLd5Nc6l5mor7IOdoqsxICd228yqFzXR9YqJE1QQ+04fve9dCfHlX bPXMTDF+ccWhQyeMlS5/JQkfY9pXtKxEj7v71m5NIoW5EX407WIW4ayJ1QQJXz/o 1mwadaBZTyHFBTPUq5qqLVsCAvdz7qlRDGGPTC61m8OXkv66XBnA05UH03iNEseo P9qMU466YVB3SsiHZDKnjpr/l76OiSHQtpRMy66hgQUy0To5TDSHCvX8wCy5wJen BjNc8Lj/50UNv7LY6bFF8f8Upz0LXxFbObrQSo1paegyUDJjK0RPebRIyXi1x7GH gooeiLOIa218oy2/8eN8AgUfor5J9UHk3cWHtKAZjwPCkjG0PyQ9ItEvcEQXe7S4 mwMlJRNV/Yv+72ulyabg =/v5B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--