Re: Avoid the Yen Sign [Was: Re: new sigil]

2005-10-25 Thread Larry Wall
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 10:55:34PM +0900, Dan Kogai wrote: : To make the matter worse, there are not just one yen sign in : Unicode. Take a look at this. : : ¥ U+00A5 YEN SIGN : ¥ U+FFE5 FULLWIDTH YEN SIGN : : Tough they look and groks the same to human, computers handle them : differently.

Re: Avoid the Yen Sign [Was: Re: new sigil]

2005-10-25 Thread Larry Wall
: On 10/23/05, Autrijus Tang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : In addition to your handy table, the and french quotes, which are used : quite heavily in Perl 6 for both bracketing and hyper operators, also have : full width equivalents: : : 300A;LEFT DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET;Ps;0;ON;Y;OPENING

RE: Avoid the Yen Sign [Was: Re: new sigil]

2005-10-25 Thread Jan Dubois
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Larry Wall wrote: As for the ¥ pitfall, so far we've intentionally been careful to use it only where an operator is expected, whereas \ is legal only where a term is expected. So at least for Perl code, we can translate legacy ¥ to different codepoints. (Whether the

Re: Avoid the Yen Sign [Was: Re: new sigil]

2005-10-25 Thread Juerd
Jan Dubois skribis 2005-10-25 12:33 (-0700): Just something to keep in mind in case you are tempted to use the Won sign as a sigil or operator in the future. I don't know what stitch() will do, but this will have to be its infix operator :) zip ¥ Y stitch Won w Juerd --

Avoid the Yen Sign [Was: Re: new sigil]

2005-10-23 Thread Dan Kogai
Maeda-san and the list members, Thank you for raising this issue and sorry for not raising this myself. On Oct 22, 2005, at 19:42 , Kaoru Maeda wrote: If we find a lot of yen sign as zip-operator in the standard library, we have a big question: Give up either Perl6 or Windows. Which do we

Re: Avoid the Yen Sign [Was: Re: new sigil]

2005-10-23 Thread Autrijus Tang
Dan Kogai wrote: To make the matter worse, there are not just one yen sign in Unicode. Take a look at this. ¥ U+00A5 YEN SIGN ¥ U+FFE5 FULLWIDTH YEN SIGN Tough they look and groks the same to human, computers handle them differently. This happened when Unicode Consortium decided to make

Re: Avoid the Yen Sign [Was: Re: new sigil]

2005-10-23 Thread Rob Kinyon
On 10/23/05, Autrijus Tang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Kogai wrote: To make the matter worse, there are not just one yen sign in Unicode. Take a look at this. ¥ U+00A5 YEN SIGN ¥ U+FFE5 FULLWIDTH YEN SIGN Tough they look and groks the same to human, computers handle them