JGMENUUNICODE(7)

💖 jgmenuunicode 💖

okay bestie, so this is the jgmenuunicode(7) page — it's literally just a whole vibe tour of how unicode works inside jgmenu. section 7, she's a manpage, she's iconic, let's go 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

jgmenuunicode — an overview of jgmenu unicode usage 🦋

🌸 INTRODUCTION 🌸

okay so here's the tea: jgmenu can display unicode characters. periodt. and you can use them in:

• CSV data
• Widgets
• Config file

and throughout this whole doc, we're gonna refer to unicode code points by writing u+ and then their hexadecimal number. so in examples, u+1234 is the girl we're using 💅

🖥️ UNICODE CHARACTERS IN TERMINAL 🖥️

ngl terminals are NOT all built the same when it comes to unicode, they handle it differently 😭 so for full support: avoid xterm and urxvt, and instead opt for something libvte based, like sakura or gnome-terminal. those are the main characters here 👑

in a terminal, you can produce a unicode character by issuing

printf '%b' '\u1234'

and in libvte terminals specifically, you can press ctrl+shift+u and then enter the hex sequence ✨

📝 UNICODE CHARACTERS IN VIM 📝

whilst in insert mode, press ctrl+V and then type u1234. that's it. that's the tip 🫶

also use the command ga to show the hex value of the character under the cursor. lowkey so useful 🔍

🎭 VARIATION SELECTORS 🎭

okay this part is so cool. some unicode characters can be rendered as either emoji or text, and special invisible unicode characters called variation selectors can be used to force either presentation 💫

so you append with the text presentation selector (u+fe0e) or the emoji presentation selector (u+fe0f), to force text or emoji respectively. for example:

u+1f50d u+fe0f 🔍
u+1f50d u+fe0e 🔍︎

see how they're giving different energy?? yeah. that's the whole point 😌

👑 USEFUL CHARACTERS FOR BUILDING MENUS 👑

🔎 SEARCH

u+2315 ⌕
u+26b2 ⚲
u+1c04 ᰄ

➡️ ARROWS

u+2192 →
u+203a ›
u+25b6 ▶
u+2794 ➔
u+2799 ➙
u+279b ➛
u+279c ➜
u+279d ➝
u+279e ➞
u+279f ➟
u+27a0 ➠
u+27a1 ➡
u+27a2 ➢
u+27a3 ➣
u+27a4 ➤
u+27a5 ➥
u+27a6 ➦
u+21a6 ↦
u+21d2 ⇒
u+21dd ⇝
u+21e2 ⇢
u+21e5 ⇥
u+21e8 ⇨
u+21fe ⇾
u+27ad ➭
u+27ae ➮
u+27af ➯
u+27b1 ➱
u+27b2 ➲
u+27ba ➺
u+27bc ➼
u+27bd ➽
u+27be ➾

that's 33 arrows bestie, count 'em, they're all here, no cap 🔥

💜 AUTHORS 💜

Johan Malm. — yeah that's the whole author section, one name, slay 💅

and that's the page!! this was JGMENUUNICODE(7) from 7 October, 2020, version JGMENUUNICODE(7). mwah, bye bestie 🫶✨🎀