Re: [whatwg] Unicode - ASCII copy/paste fallback

2015-02-14 Thread David Sheets
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 11:11 PM, Glenn Maynard gl...@zewt.org wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Glenn Maynard gl...@zewt.org wrote: Copying ASCII isn't desirable. It should copy the Unicode string a → b. After all, that's what gets copied if you had done spana → b/span in the first

Re: [whatwg] Unicode - ASCII copy/paste fallback

2015-02-14 Thread David Sheets
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 10:23 PM, Ashley Gullen ash...@scirra.com wrote: Why is it desirable to copy ASCII versions of unicode text? Doesn't most software now support unicode so the user can copy and paste what they see, rather than some ASCII-art equivalent? I am writing a documentation

Re: [whatwg] Unicode - ASCII copy/paste fallback

2015-02-14 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 12:34 PM, David Sheets kosmo...@gmail.com wrote: I am writing a documentation generation tool for a programming language with right arrows represented as - but would like to render them as →. Programmers are used to writing in ASCII and reading typeset mathematics. If