Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas writes: > On Nov 7, 2019, at 19:59, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > And I do the same with the operators that you disparagingly call > > "ASCII soup". I touch type them. What's the difference, other than > > that I can transfer my knowledge of typing English? > > Well, there’s also the fact that you can touch type them into > Mail.app and pine and a StackOverflow answer box and a blog comment > and a general purpose text editor and get the exact same result you > get in PyCharm or PyDev. That’s a pretty huge difference, which the > OP is ignoring.
I don't think there would be a difference nowadays. I type Japanese encoded in Unicode into Mail.app and Emacs and Nano and web forms all the time; they're perfectly happy with Unicode. The question is what will the *audience* do with those unfamiliar symbols? Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/XBTETZLJTSRDROWRA4RBWS3U6QIPLBV2/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
