>From what I see in the version 1.2.0 of gucharmap it actually is aware of all the unicode definitions and grays out the spots that are notOn Mon, 19 Jan 2004 14:46:55 -0800, Aaron Walker muttered:Andrej Kacian wrote:Hi, what do I need installed in order for gucharmap to display exotic characters properly instead of displaying their code in a rectangle?I assume there will be separate package for each unicode character class (latin-a, latin-b, hebrew, ...).Sorry about the broken replies... lost the original message thread. But: There will *always* be some characters that gucharmap can't display, for the simple reason that not all 2**16 (or is it 2**32?) Unicode characters aren't defined yet, and, even so, you're unlikely to have the fonts for, say, ancient Borzoovian runic glyphs. The only reason you should be concerned about getting the code-in-rectangle is if that appears as part of a document you want to read.
specified in some unicode standard. Of course it is obvious that some more rara charcacter classes will be missing almost totally unless you have specifically sought for them (latin-a should be common, but for example latin-b and hebrew prolly won't be availabee unless the specific font is installed).
So the space allocated for unicode characters was 2^32, but I think that the most recent definition dropped it to some more reasonable number, and even that was assumed to never be reached even if all reasonable glyphs that might be used are added to the definitions.
(After finding solution to my problem stated in other thread earlier, I did find a workaround that I posted to the bugzilla, I don't think it's directly related to the problem despite the simlarity. It can be found in bug numbered 38775 <URL: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38775>.
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