> Because if I already can't understand the words, it will be more useful > to me to be able to type them reliably at a keyboard, for replication, > search, discussion with others about the code, etc.
I am probably not alone in my Americo-centric world where I can't even easily type accented Latin-1 characters. I happen to be using Linux as I type this, but type at a Windows keyboard at work (ugh) and have long been a user of Macs (still have one or two at home). Might the problem be further multiplied by the number of different ways I have of entering text? Would Emacs running on Linux, but displaying on Windows be different than Chrome running directly on Linux? I will make a wild-ass guess and suggest that maybe, just maybe, those three major system types have different ways of typing accented characters. Consequently, I've never even tried to learn any of them. On the rare instance where I need to type an accented character, such as when typing Marc-André Lemburg's name properly, I ask Google for "accented e" and copy/paste an instance. That's a PITA, but worth it on the few occasions where I need it today. I suppose I would have to break down and learn how to properly enter such text should I need to Romanized text which might contain cedillas, accents and other diacritical marks... This is all not to suggest the goal isn't worth striving for, just that there exists a huge barrier - in the form of ASCII and its limiting effect on computer keyboard entry - to attaining Unicode identifier Nirvana. Perhaps for my next computer I should choose a non-ASCII keyboard option when configuring it. Skip -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list