From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79009 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus-registry-marks support Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:18:45 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87wrh5vgei.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87oc2w83w3.fsf@gnumonk.com> <87sjs3a56j.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87y61m7rbp.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87pqmxlunz.fsf@gnumonk.com> Reply-To: ding@gnus.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1306934350 24868 80.91.229.12 (1 Jun 2011 13:19:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 13:19:10 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27309@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Jun 01 15:19:07 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 1QRlKE-0001a7-5h for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:19:06 +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 1QRlK9-000461-Mj; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:19:01 -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 1QRlK8-00045l-Hp for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:19:00 -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 1QRlK7-0005Fl-8O for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:19:00 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QRlK5-0005HJ-QG for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:18:57 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QRlK5-0001V2-2P for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:18:57 +0200 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:18:57 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:18:57 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 41 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:C+CqIy9a8fbhY2SjuhuVAD3VRWU= X-Spam-Score: -3.7 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79009 Archived-At: 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. 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. 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. Thanks Ted