<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 July 2016 at 11:58, René J.V. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rjvbertin@gmail.com" target="_blank">rjvbertin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Sunday July 03 2016 11:28:28 Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:<br>
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>On a GUI level: There's KDE GUI for that (there are many equivalents):<br>
><a href="https://utils.kde.org/projects/kcharselect/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://utils.kde.org/projects/kcharselect/</a><br>
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</span>Does that have a KF5 equivalent yet?<br></blockquote><div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:small;display:inline">Nope and for a reason. In my imagination KF5 is not a kitchen sink like kdelibs were; each library of KF5 is now much more light and potentially on its way to Qt if that's beneficial for the communities. I see that KCharSelect is a very special, rarely used for some general purpose, it's a tool widget, that's it.<br>It is there for use at the OS' workspace level. It does not abstract anything or (as already mentioned) acts as an input method.<br></div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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>It's not the input method so someone needs to turn that input method. As<br>
>you can see in the KCharSelect app, selection of unicode range is a<br>
>function of given font - different ranges are supported by different fonts.<br>
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</span>FWIW, I think OS X has something like this on the OS level, available if you activate the keyboard selection menu and the corresponding option (there's also a keyboard viewer). Those keyboard and character viewer options open the equivalent of floating dock windows attached to the application active when you evoke the feature. The character viewer allows you to browse all known Unicode ranges and will show the glyphs from installed fonts that have the selected Unicode key, plus known variants. And of course allow to input the glyph in question.<br>
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So yeah, it's up to the OS or desktop environment to provide such a feature...<br>
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Preferences to select which font to use for which Unicode range can make sense, but IMHO more in applications like web browsers that can encounter just about any kind of content conceivable and that aren't designed to *create* _coherent_ documents.<br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:small">Yes the challenge discussed is addressed by operating systems at their level. Even mobile OSes of course.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:small">Only minimal installations like MS DOS or embedded systems address it at the application level if that is what the app author wants and pays for.<br></div><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">regards, Jaroslaw Staniek<br><br>KDE:<br>: A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators<br>: and facilitators committed to Free Software development - <a href="http://kde.org" target="_blank">http://kde.org</a><br>Calligra Suite:<br>: A graphic art and office suite - <a href="http://calligra.org" target="_blank">http://calligra.org</a><br>Kexi:<br>: A visual database apps builder - <a href="http://calligra.org/kexi" target="_blank">http://calligra.org/kexi</a><br>Qt Certified Specialist:<br>: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek</a></div>
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