Bug 425179

Summary: Unable to find private use characters (no option to display all)
Product: [Applications] kcharselect Reporter: Roy Orbitson <roy-orbitson>
Component: generalAssignee: Christoph Feck <cfeck>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 19.12   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Roy Orbitson 2020-08-10 08:45:18 UTC 
SUMMARY

Difficult to browse or find particular characters, visually.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE

1. Open, for example, a 'nerdfont' patched with special characters, such as Hack (from https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/)
2. Try to locate a private use unicode character, such as, U+E0B0, by browsing through all category and block filters


OBSERVED RESULT

Certain characters can't be found in any combination of filters (by me, anyway), or require going through every block in every category until found.


EXPECTED RESULT

For all characters of a font to be accessible/visible even if the category + block is not known. Preferably be able to scroll through the entire font rather rather than be limited only to known, fixed ranges within it.


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.68.0
Qt Version: 5.12.8


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Some glyphs could only be found by learning their Unicode codepoints from another source, then typing them into the Find box.
Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2020-08-10 08:54:33 UTC 
The E000..EFFF code range is currently remapped to 1F000..1FFFF to make Emoji work. For details, see bug 142625 comment 17.

As a workaround, you can install an old kcharselect-data file from KF5 version < 5.25, e.g. https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kwidgetsaddons/-/blob/v5.24.0/src/kcharselect-data

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 142625 ***