Re: Fraktur in plain-text?

[David Wright]

On Wed 24 Jan 2018 at 16:18:26 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote:
> Karlin High <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On 1/24/2018 4:34 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
> >>   { 𝖆 𝖇 𝖈 𝖉 𝖊 𝖋 𝖌 𝖍 𝖎 𝖐 𝖑 𝖒 𝖓 𝖔 𝖕 }
> >
> > How did you do that, David?
> 
> Probably a copy&paste from a Unicode table of math fraktur code points.
> Emacs identifies the first of the above as
> 
>              position: 488 of 866 (56%), restriction: <195-867>, column: 7
>             character: 𝖆 (displayed as 𝖆) (codepoint 120198, #o352606, 
> #x1d586)
>     preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
> code point in charset: 0x1D586
>                script: mathematical
>                syntax: w      which means: word
>              category: .:Base, L:Left-to-right (strong)
>              to input: type "C-x 8 RET 1d586" or "C-x 8 RET MATHEMATICAL BOLD 
> FRAKTUR SMALL A"
>           buffer code: #xF0 #x9D #x96 #x86
>             file code: #xF0 #x9D #x96 #x86 (encoded by coding system 
> utf-8-emacs-unix)
>               display: by this font (glyph code)
>     xft:-PfEd-Unifont Upper-normal-normal-normal-*-15-*-*-*-d-0-iso10646-1 
> (#x156D)
> 
> Character code properties:
>   name: MATHEMATICAL BOLD FRAKTUR SMALL A
>   general-category: Ll (Letter, Lowercase)
>   decomposition: (font 97) (font 'a')
> 
> > I'm using Thunderbird here, I think it has the Consolas font for
> > plain-text email. That quoted text comes through as pretty first-rate
> > Fraktur letters, which I sure wasn't expecting to see in a plain-text
> > email.
> 
> Unicode has a lot of codepoints.  I mean, there are even things like
> 
> 🗽
> 
> which you need to display in a large font to even have a chance at
> recognizing.  In my default font size it looks like some sort of camel
> or space invaders attacker.

… and of course the attachment itself was correctly encoded thus:

 Content-Type: text/x-lilypond; charset=utf-8
 Content-Disposition: inline; filename=tabber.ly
 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

which mutt shows as  [text/x-lilypond, quoted, utf-8, 3.5K]

Cheers,
David.