Re: unicode entirely via buffer

On 2017-07-10 15:00, e-letter wrote:
> Is it possible to configure jedit so that unicode characters can be
> typed directly into a buffer?

I'm not sure what you're asking.  If the buffer's encoding is set to a 
Unicode encoding (presumably UTF-8), you can certainly enter Unicode 
chars, including non-ASCII Unicode chars.  (ASCII is of course a subset 
of UTF-8.)  I do it all the time.  You will probably want to tell jEdit 
to use a font that displays the Unicode chars you need, otherwise you'll 
get boxes.  If you can't find a good font that displays everything, like 
say a single font that displays both ASCII and Arabic, then you can 
check the "Additional fonts with font substitution" box and add your 
fallback font in the "Font substitution: Preferred fonts" box.  Both 
these are in the Global Options | Text Area dialog.

If you're asking how to set up a keyboard so you can literally type 
(non-ASCII) Unicode chars, then that's an OS-specific thing, not 
something you would probably want to do in jEdit.  In Windows, you use 
the Control Panel | Region and languages applet to add additional 
keyboards (or choose a non-default keyboard as your only keyboard).  In 
principle, you could instead use jEdit's Global Options | Shortcuts 
dialog to translate keystrokes into some other characters (make the 'a' 
key output an Arabic alif character to the jEdit buffer), but that would 
be a rather painful way to do what your OS already does, I would think.

And as Alan wrote, you can use jEdit's Character Map plugin to enter 
characters.  But that can be painful if you have lots of non-standard 
characters to enter.

    Mike Maxwell

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