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

[Oxygen XML Editor Support (Radu Coravu)]

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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