From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Rettke Subject: Re: RFC better Unicode support - Unicode Characters causing problems with TAGs etc. Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 11:25:46 -0600 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39425) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eKp4Q-0008Ef-Vk for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Dec 2017 12:25:51 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eKp4P-0004SI-Ut for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Dec 2017 12:25:50 -0500 Received: from mail-lf0-x232.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c07::232]:33559) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eKp4P-0004Qu-NG for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Dec 2017 12:25:49 -0500 Received: by mail-lf0-x232.google.com with SMTP id 74so12547522lfs.0 for ; Fri, 01 Dec 2017 09:25:49 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: Tim O'Callaghan Cc: org-mode On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 2:40 AM, Tim O'Callaghan wrote: > > Also, are other people using Unicode, and if so, how? especially with visually consistent tables, For some characters you can handle it by using [[http://orgmode.org/manual/Special-symbols.html][Special symbols]] in the tables for example this lines up correctly: | hi | there | a | b | c | |----+-------+---+---+---| | \laquo{} | \raquo{} | \pi{} | \check{} | | [[http://orgmode.org/worg/org-symbols.html][Here]] are the symbols. You can also list them by calling `org-entities-help'. > does anyone have a a good mono-spaced to recommend? DejaVuSansMono. With Symbola as a fallback: (set-fontset-font "fontset-default" nil (font-spec :size 20 :name "Symbola"))