Austin Hastings writes: > I think you guys may be talking at cross purposes. Robin, I think, is > talking primarily about coding, while Damian talks of reading. > > Perhaps Damian's solution is a Unicode2Ascii perl script that emits formal > names, combined with the implementation in Perl of the > E<long-assed-ascii-name> alternative spellings. > > OTOH, Robin's concern for how to code when you're stuck with 7 bit ascii on > the boot console of a Sun box remains valid, and *I* sure would rather have > a short name available in a standard way. > > Perhaps this is where the "accept Unicode and HTML" philosopy comes in, sort > of like the reverse of C< use English; >, to wit: > > use asciiops; > ... > @list.E<reach>method; # Instead of E<GUILLEMOT, CLOSING QUOTE>
I think that using the POD entities + Unicode is fine, but the solution to giving people who use E<LEFT LOOKING TRIPLE WIGGLY LONG WUNDERBAR RIGHTWARDS, COMBINING> often, I belive, is to be able to define these escapes simply. Either the module writer or the user would map a more usable escape to that character. Luke
