On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <turnbull.stephen...@u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote: > Uh, as far as I can tell from that page, Perl has absolutely nothing > to do with that. You enter the Unicode code point as hex, and if the > font supports, you get the character. What Paul is arguing is that > entering any character, non-ASCII or ASCII, as a hex code point or as > an Alt+digits sequence, is a non-starter for our audience. Much as > I'd like to disagree, I can't.
Back when I used a single codepage (IBM OEM, now called 437) and 256 characters, it wasn't unreasonable to memorize the alt-codes for most of those characters. I could do all the single-line and double-line characters from memory (might take me a couple of tries to get the right corner), and if I needed to mix line types, I could just look those up. But with all of Unicode? Totally impractical. You can't expect people to use the hex codes. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
