Mac – How to type a Unicode character by its number in Emacs

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How to type a Unicode character by its number, e.g. 0x2E3B for Unicode character U+2E3B (THREE-EM DASH) in Emacs?

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On Emacs 23, type Ctrl+X 8 Enter and then the number, followed by Enter. Learned this from Emacs and Unicode Tips, which describes other methods too (Ctrl+X 8 Enter can be followed by Unicode name as well).

Note that U+2E38 probably does not show up unless you have installed Symbola or Everson Mono and defined one of them as the font to be used by Emacs. There might be other fonts that contain the character but the fileformat.info font support page mentions only these two.

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Windows – How to type U+200B character

When using recent versions of Chrome/Chromium, you can use its console to copy the character to clipboard:

copy("\u200B")         // works for BMP characters only (U+0000 to U+FFFF)
copy("\u{200B}")       // works for all characters (U+0000 to U+10FFFF)

copy(String.fromCodePoint(0x200B))

Mac – Emacs line number

Do you have very long (wide) lines? Have you seen line-number-display-limit-width ?

line-number-display-limit-width is a variable defined in `C source code'. Its value is 200

Documentation:
*Maximum line width (in characters) for line number display.
If the average length of the lines near point is bigger than this, then the
line number may be omitted from the mode line.

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