On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Jon Lang <datawea...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 6:52 AM, John Macdonald <j...@perlwolf.com> wrote: >> Yep, I've done that. >> >> But comparing the difference in effort between: >> >> - press a key >> - Google for a web page that has the right character set, cut, refocus, paste >> >> means that I don't bother for the one or two "weird" characters >> every few months that is my current Unicode usage. If I were >> working with Unicode frequently, it would be worth setting up >> links and mechanisms, or learning the keyboard compose sequences >> for frequently used characters. I'm sure that there are many >> people in a similar situation. > > Agreed. Given the frequency with which « and » come up in Perl 6, I'd > love to be able to have a simple keyboard shortcut that produces these > two characters. Unfortunately, I am often stuck using a Windows > system when coding; and the easiest method that I have available to me > there (that I know of) is to pull up Character Map.
In response to this thread, I activated the "US International" keyboard layout, and once that's done theoretically one can get "Spanish style quote mark" with RightAlt+[ and RightAlt+] like so: « and ». The questions which remain (for me, at least) is if (a) the symbols survive in email, and (b) if they really are the proper marks for Perl6. > > -- > Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang >
