--- Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 8:08 AM -0800 1/16/03, Austin Hastings wrote: > >--- Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Sugalski) writes: > >> > Ah, that's a different question. Having Unicode synonyms may > well > >> be > >> > considered reasonable thing > >> > >> Sounds like the good old days of trigraphs. > > > >It's very much like the good old days of trigraphs. But on the plus > >side, once all the losers get their fonts/xterms/editors up-to-speed > on > >extended character sets, the trigraphs will die a forgotten death. > > And keyboards, don't forget keyboards. These pesky primitive ones we > have now would require a lot of shift-control-alt-meta-cokebottle key > sequences...
Perl has never cared about keyboards -- install some of the non-US keyboard layouts and then try typing a relatively normal perl script. Tilde? Brackets? Forward and backticks? Hell, even dollar-signs are scarce in some layouts -- wouldn't want to omit that Lb. or Euro sign. I'm relatively certain that it's a trivial matter to create a "Perl IME" for windows, if one knows the 2.6 million windows things that must be known to get started (which I sadly don't). That's probably the solution. =Austin
