RFC better Unicode support - Unicode Characters causing problems with TAGs etc.

RFC better Unicode support - Unicode Characters causing problems with TAGs etc.

[Tim O'Callaghan]

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Hi,

I have been experimenting with some Unicode symbols as part of my TODO and
TAG definitions, to mixed results. I would like to propose that they are
given first class support, especially in tags and priorities.

Also, are other people using Unicode, and if so, how? especially with
visually consistent tables, does anyone have a a good mono-spaced to
recommend?

Here is some stuff to play with:

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#+PRIORITIES: ❢ ☯ ⧖
#+TAGS: emacs⚙ ⌚yakshaving
#+SEQ_TODO: ☐TODO  ❢☐ ☯☐ ⌚☐ ⚙☐ ✍☐ ⧖ | ✔☺ ✔ ✘ ☑  ☒ ☓ ☑DONE  ☒CANCELLED ☓

TODO fastkeys and similar seem to work

Tables:
| symbols    | Interpretation |   |   |   |
| ❢☐         |                |   |   |   |
| ❢TODO      |                |   |   |   |
| ⌚☐WAITING |                |   |   |   |
| ⧖WAITING          |                |   |   |   |
| ✔☺         |                |   |   |   |
| ✔DONE      |                |   |   |   |
| ✘          |                |   |   |   |
| ☑          |                |   |   |   |
| ☒          |                |   |   |   |
| ☓          |                |   |   |   |

* [#⧖] ❢☐ add ispell write mode hook to saving journals
:emacs⚙:

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Tim.

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Re: RFC better Unicode support - Unicode Characters causing problems with TAGs etc.

[Grant Rettke]

On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 2:40 AM, Tim O'Callaghan
<tim.ocallaghan@gmail.com> 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"))

Re: RFC better Unicode support - Unicode Characters causing problems with TAGs etc.

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

"Tim O'Callaghan" <tim.ocallaghan@gmail.com> writes:

> I have been experimenting with some Unicode symbols as part of my TODO and
> TAG definitions, to mixed results. I would like to propose that they are
> given first class support, especially in tags and priorities.

I think Unicode in TODO keywords and priority cookies is already
possible.

The regexp for tags is

  ":[[:alnum:]_@#%:]+:"

What would you suggest instead?

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou