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Is there a text editor/notes app that adds Unicode symbols? (feddit.de)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For example, there is Material Notes which has a editor toolbar with bold, indented, ~~stroke~~, etc. But this is rendered, exported to json or syntax like Markdown. This app too, in which i write this on lemmy, does the same. We have ☐, ☒, •, ‣ in Unicode, 𝗕𝗼𝗹𝗱, 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡, s̵t̵r̵o̵k̵e̵, so why not use this?

Basically, what i'm looking for is a text editor with toolbar/keystrokes for Android or Linux, which adds unicode symbols for rich text. It would make reading plain text notes/todo lists cross-device simpler. Yes, there's UnicodePad and Charmap but that's not the same.

edit: something where you mark a word, tap the B in the toolbar or press ctrl+b and it replaces the characters with uc bold characters, no? Tap the list button and it adds uc bullet points, etc...

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Some applications can't display some Unicode strings like s̵t̵r̵o̵k̵e̵, so replacing Markdown element like ~strike~ with Unicode equivalent (s̵t̵r̵o̵k̵e̵ ) may not be a good idea if you want portability. I opened your post in text editors and noticed that neovim-qt drops s̵t̵r̵o̵k̵e̵'s combining characters (issue on Github) and just displays stroke instead of s̵t̵r̵o̵k̵e̵; GUI Emacs with my font settings (Noto) doesn't combine the characters and displays s-t-r-o-k-e- (as I said, this may depends on font settings).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah, of course font an tool needs to support it. Well ok, maybe we're not yet there. On the other hand, Emacs and Vim are quite old. It works in Kate, Mousepad, Leafpad... Nano does s-t-r-o-k-e too. Geany does a mix where it displays correctly but each char has two strokes, weird. But that is still good enough.