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jamesohortle / UnicodeHover

Hover over a Unicode escape in VS Code to see the glyph of the character, its description and a link to its webpage!
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Provide brief description of character (useful if character is non-printable) #1

Closed jamesohortle closed 5 years ago

jamesohortle commented 5 years ago

We should provide information next to the glyph of the short English name given to the codepoint.

This is useful for non-printable characters, control characters and characters for which no font is available with the required glyphs.

Example format:

Null # Non-printable so need description.
  Space # Whitespace, so need description to distinguish between, say, space and thin non-break space
ሴ Ethiopic Syllable See # Description is nice
இ Tamil Letter I # Description is nice
࿚ Tibetan Mark Trailing Mchan Rtags # No font available for rare character
傷 Ideograph wound, injury; fall ill from CJK # Description is nice
࿚ Cat Face with Tears of Joy # No font found
jamesohortle commented 5 years ago

Done: 0f5af8286e64efe9bed2901677279f42fd526703