Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character entity references?
Veek 'this_is_not_my_name' M
vek.m1234 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 6 06:06:32 EDT 2016
Rustom Mody wrote:
> On Saturday, September 3, 2016 at 5:25:48 PM UTC+5:30, Veek. M wrote:
>> https://mail.python.org/pipermail//python-ideas/2014-October/029630.htm
>>
>> Wanted to know if the above link idea, had been implemented and if
>> there's a module that accepts a pattern like 'cap' and give you all
>> the instances of unicode 'CAP' characters.
>> ⋂ \bigcap
>> ⊓ \sqcap
>> ∩ \cap
>> ♑ \capricornus
>> ⪸ \succapprox
>> ⪷ \precapprox
>>
>> (above's from tex)
>>
>> I found two useful modules in this regard: unicode_tex, unicodedata
>> but unicodedata is a builtin which does not do globs, regexs - so
>> it's kind of limiting in nature.
>>
>> Would be nice if you could search html/xml character entity
>> references as well.
>
> [Not exactly an answer]
>
> I use a number of things for such
> 1. Google
> 2. Xah Lee’s excellent pages which often fit my brain better than
> wikipedia:
> http://xahlee.info/comp/unicode_index.html
> 3. emacs’ function ucs-insert recently renamed to insert-char
> ie [In emacs] Type Alt-x insert-char
> After that some kind of TAB-globbing (case-insensitive) works
> I wont try with Cap (because the number of *CAPITAL* is in
> thousands!) eg alphaTAB gives nothing. However *alphaTAB gives a
> bunch. Narrow to "greek alpha"TAB and you get a bunch
>
>
> The fact that we should have a series of levels for char-input from
> most general and unergonomic (google) to most specific and ergonomic
> (special purpose keyboard) Ive tried to talk of as 7 levels near end
> of http://blog.languager.org/2015/01/unicode-and-universe.html
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