On 2010-03-16, Steven D'Aprano <ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au> wrote:
>> Though it may not be Microsoft Word, I think I'd still maintain that >> an editor where you can't see a ctrl-Z or tell the difference between >> an ASCII minus and a windows-codepage-whatever isn't a very good >> programmer's editor. > > Regarding ctrl-Z (or for that matter other control characters), I > agree it's a lack. > > As for not being able to see the difference between a hyphen and an > EN- dash, or minus sign, or whatever it is, yes but they are very > similar looking glyphs in virtually ever modern font. It would take a > good eye to see the difference between (say) ??? ??? and -. My point is that if it's an ASCII file, then rendering \x96 as an em-dash isn't correct. I'd expect it to show up highlighted somehow in hex or octal so that I know it's a non-ASCII character. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! We are now enjoying at total mutual interaction in gmail.com an imaginary hot tub ... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list