xmlunicode

Homepage: https://github.com/ndw/xmlunicode

Author: Norman Walsh

Updated:

Summary

Unicode support for XML

Commentary

This file provides a suite of functions designed to make it easier
to enter Unicode into Emacs. It is not, in fact, particularly XML-specific though
it does define an 'xml input-mode and does support the ISO 8879 entity names.

Usage

1. By default, the entire Unicode character list (as defined in
   xmlunicode-character-list.el) will be loaded. You can tailor
   the selection of characters presented in the list by defining
   xmlunicode-character-list before loading xmlunicode. The
   xmlunicode-character-list is a list of triples of the form:

   (codepoint "unicode name" "iso name") ; iso name can be nil

   e.g.:   (defvar xmlunicode-character-list
            '(
              ;Codept   Unicode name                            ISO Name
              (#x000000 "NULL"                                   nil     )
              (#x000001 "START OF HEADING"                       nil     )
              ...
              (#x0000a0 "NO-BREAK SPACE"                         "nbsp"  )
              (#x0000a1 "INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK"              "iexcl" )
              (#x0000a2 "CENT SIGN"                              "cent"  )
              ...))


2. Bind the functions defined in this file to keys you find convenient.

   The likely candidates are:

   xmlunicode-character-insert            insert a character by unicode name
                                          (with completion)
   xmlunicode-iso8879-character-insert    insert a character by ISO entity name
                                          (with completion)
   xmlunicode-smart-double-quote          inserts an appropriate double quote
   xmlunicode-smart-single-quote          inserts an appropriate single quote
   xmlunicode-character-menu-insert       choose special character from a popup menu
   xmlunicode-character-shortcut-insert   enter a two-character shortcut for a
                                          unicode character

   Helm integration is provided in `xmlunicode-helm.el`. For helm,
   use the function `xmlunicode-character-insert-helm`.

   You can also create a standard Emacs menu for the character menu list
   (instead of, or in addition to, the popup). To do that:

   (define-key APPROPRIATE-MAP [menu-bar unichar]
     (cons "UniChar" xmlunicode-character-menu-map))

   Where APPROPRIATE-MAP is the name of the Emacs keymap to bind into

3. If you want to use the xml input-mode, which provides automatic replacement for the
   ISO entity names:

   (set-input-method 'xml)

   in the appropriate context. Unlike sgml-input, xml-input only inserts the
   characters for which you have glyphs. It inserts other characters as numeric
   character references. (If you want to insert a literal character even if
   you don't have it in your fonts, use xmlunicode-character-insert or
   xmlunicode-iso8879-character-insert with a prefix.)

Changes

v1.25 29 Aug 2021
  Added a progress message when loading the xmlunicode-character-alist.
  Fixed a few docstrings.
  Updated to Unicode 14.0.0d13.
v1.24 17 Jul 2021
  Changed the format of the xmlunicode-character-alist so that it's
  more useful for searching by adding the XML entity name and the
  hex codepoint to the displayed string. The performance of
  computing that alist is kind of bad, but I'm not sure how to
  improve it. In the meantime, I've reworked things so that it's
  only computed when it's first used, so you don't pay the cost at
  startup time.
v1.23 23 Aug 2020
  Fixed bug where xmlunicode-smart-hyphen didn't recognize the
  context "

    

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