On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 9:15 PM, Alfred Zett <alfre...@web.de> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > is there such a unicode block for programming related codepoints? > > Conventional search engines as well as wolfram alpha can't answer that, with > the former one leading to all the programming problems that occur... > > If such a block doesn't exist, I'd like to make a proposal - if possible - > to add one with at least the following codepoints/characters:
Once upon a time I would have said that this is out of scope for Unicode. But now anything goes, so who knows. > - Indentation codepoint, with no fixed defined graphical representation. For > indentation based programming languages. > Because: > -- specific clients may want to show it different (for example as arrows, > lines etc., using another color): > --- browsers could let the web page creator let decide the visual > representation (character and size) via CSS > --- the same with editors, independent from the actual font > --- in case of visual impairment, the user could even change the accoustical > representation if the editor allows it > -- unlike a space symbol, it wouldn't need more than one character per > indentation > -- unlike tabs or space, it wouldn't be whitespace > -- unlike normal arrow characters, one could customize the length in an > editor and wouldn't have to insert extra spaces for a better visual imagery a Tab is exactly what you described. > - A codepoint for string literal quotes, that would spare one the escaping. How would this work exactly? > - A statement separator symbol. What's wrong with ; , . : # % ^ & and other hundreds of punctuation symbols? Cheers P. _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list Unicode@unicode.org http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode