[Github-comments] [geany/geany-plugins] [request] Show current character information (#1005)

[elextr]

I assume that by your loose use of "character" you actually mean Unicode code point.  When we are talking about these things its important to be precise, as was pointed out on #2733.

A well written pull request that added say %u to the status bar template values to show the code point in the line would probably be accepted, just needs care to minimise the cost as it would have to be counted each update, and some people insist on editing minimised HTML/JS that is _all_ one line.

Adding the character names requires the unicode data files (AFAICT its not available from any of the libraries Geany currently uses or something like ICU) and could be fairly big.  Thats the sort of thing that should be put in a plugin so the cost isn't incurred by those not needing it.

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