[oXygen-user] How to type an UTF8 symbol in text as well as in author mode

[George Bina]

Hi,

Another way to enter a special character, or in general any code 
fragment, is to use code templates as documented at:
https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/19.1/ug-editor/topics/code-templates-x-editing2.html?hl=code%2Ctemplates

Best Regards,
George
--
George Cristian Bina
<oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
http://www.oxygenxml.com

On 19/02/18 11:03, Oxygen XML Editor Support (Radu Coravu)  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the reminder Ben.
> Indeed I forgot about this feature in Oxygen:
>
> https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/19.1/ug-editor/topics/text-mode-actions.html#text-mode-actions__convert-hex-sequence
>
>
> which basically allows you to type away the hex digits in Oxygen and
> then invoke the special "Convert Hexadecimal Sequence to Character" action.
>
> Regards,
> Radu
>
> Radu Coravu
> <oXygen/>  XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
> http://www.oxygenxml.com
>
> On 2/19/2018 10:56 AM, Ben McGinnes wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 09:33:28AM +0200, Oxygen XML Editor Support
>> (Radu Coravu)  wrote:
>>> Hi Bernhard,
>>>
>>> It seems that for "nbsp" which has the decimal equivalent "160" you
>>> would
>>> need to type "ALT" and then "0160", that leading "0" seems to be
>>> important.
>>> The same probably for all other characters, type their decimal
>>> equivalent
>>> but it needs to be four typed figures.
>>
>> Oh, how quickly we forget certain things.  :)
>>
>> oXygen has had the ability to enter UTF-8 characters in the first
>> plane by their four character hexadecimal code point value since
>> version 17.1.  I can't recall what the default hotkey is for invoking
>> it because I changed mine (back) to F8 as soon as I installed that
>> version.  I believe I've still got the plugin you guys provided me
>> during my trial period for 17.0.
>>
>> Anyway, if Bernhard is happy with using hex instead of int, that's the
>> solution instead of the Windows alt sequences (or the Mac alt/option
>> sequences either, for that matter).
>>
>> Accessing characters in multiplanes beyond the first is difficult in
>> most programs, including oXygenXML.  Obviously XML can handle it, but
>> the accessing problems are twofold:
>>
>>  1. Entering a hexadecimal character comprised of five or six hex
>>     characters on the remaining 16 planes (i.e. 0x10000 to 0x1fffff).
>>
>>  2. Rendering characters which can only be displayed using multiple
>>     fonts and guaranteeing font fallback capablities.
>>
>> I have only one program which can handle both of these natively for
>> editing and that's GNU Emacs, but in those cases where I need to delve
>> into the upper multiplanes I can open a file from oXygen in Emacs and
>> that'll do for now.
>>
>> It might be worth having a look at extending the hex entry feature to
>> enable a way to enter a hex value of grater than 3 bytes (4
>> characters), but oXygfen takes that input differently to other
>> programs and so it might be tricker.  Emacs, LibreOffice and other
>> programs work by activating the hex input function (it's "M-x
>> insert-char" in Emacs) and then entering the code point hex value.  In
>> oXygen you enter the hex value as four characters in the document and
>> then press the hotkey which reads the preceding four characters and
>> transforms them.
>>
>> As for font fallback, there's pretty much no options for handling that
>> in oXygen, but there are effective workarounds by doing sneaky things
>> with CSS in the source files as well as the output formats.
>>
>> I've got my own little Unicode cheat sheet which has been gradually
>> growing over the last decade or so and covers most of this in more
>> detail.  Bear in mind two things: first, it's a personal cheat sheet
>> that I only share because it often answers frequent questions I hear
>> elsewhere; and second, it's a "living document" that gets updated
>> frequently.
>>
>> That said, it's here:
>>
>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/8jifzcc8qks5cef/UnicodeNotes.pdf?dl=0
>>
>> Or to download it:
>>
>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/8jifzcc8qks5cef/UnicodeNotes.pdf?dl=1
>>
>> It's only ever released as a PDF because of all the font/glyph
>> embedding.  It claims or attempts to export as PDF/A-1, but only to
>> ensure that font embedding and it probably won't pass preflight
>> checks (nor does it need to).
>>
>> For those few readers of this list who also use Emacs, the last three
>> pages of that file include those portions of my Emacs init file which
>> specify the fallback fonts using fontset default.  I've got coverage
>> from 0x0000 to 0x2ffff and where things occasionally misbehave,
>> they're easy to identify with the aid of the binding on F16 (i.e. M-x
>> describe-char).
>>
>> Finally, my current favourite code point checking tool, for any system
>> with Perl installed, is unum.pl, available here:
>>
>> https://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/unum/
>>
>> The current version of the cheat sheet discusses it on page 23, but
>> here's a nice example of what it does:
>>
>> bash-4.4$ unum.pl 0x1f926
>>    Octal  Decimal      Hex        HTML    Character   Unicode
>>  0374446   129318  0x1F926   🤦    "🤦"         FACE PALM
>> bash-4.4$
>>
>> Obviously some of us can see that character properly and some can't,
>> but you all know which it is.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ben
>>
>>
>>
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