Le 08/07/2013 10:51, Nils Bruin a écrit :
On Monday, July 8, 2013 4:05:29 AM UTC+2, Volker Braun wrote:

    Frédéric Chapoton has written a patch at
    http://trac.sagemath.org/14733 <http://trac.sagemath.org/14733> that
    will beautify the Sage startup banner using some UTF-8 characters to
    draw the box. This will display incorrectly in terminals that do not
    support UTF-8. In that case, Sage still works but the box around the
    banner is garbled (most likely rendered by placeholder signs for
    non-ASCII characters).


-1 to a UTF-8 banner. There's hardly anything in the sage command line
that requires a UTF-8 capable terminal (all the colour stuff should shut
off automatically for a "dumb" terminal). Why require it for *just* the
banner?

More personally, I dislike the UTF-8 banner because it looks too nice.
To me it doesn't fit with the simple prompt-and-return-value interface
(see banners of magma, maple, R, matlab, pari/GP, python, IPython, GAP,
Singular). The "graphics" looking lines are more suggestive of a
menu-driven interface to me, like the text-based "dialog" interfaces. So
to me, the "+-|"-built borders raise expectations more appropriate for
what sage command line offers.


Is the banner of R so simple? Probably it does not use UTF8, but it speakes your mother's language (French in my case)...
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