On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Mark H Harris <harrismh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I personally think the answer is extended key maps triggered by meta keys > shift ctrl opt alt command | which call up full alternate mappings of > Greek|Latin|Math|symbols &c which can be chosen by mouse|pointing device. > > > The mac calls these keyboard viewer, and character viewer. In that way the > full unicode set can be available from a standard qwerty keyboard without > modifying the hardware right away.
I can get up a character map on any platform fairly easily, and if not, I can always Google the name of the character I want and copy and paste from fileformat.info or some other handy site. It's not that hard. But if I want to say "copyright", it's still quicker for me to type nine letters than to hunt down U+00A9 © to paste in somewhere. Even more so with lambda, which is a shorter word and a less common symbol (having an easy way to type A9 isn't uncommon these days, but not many give an easy way to type U+03BB). I'm much more comfortable typing that out. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
