On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Steven Schveighoffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No thanks. Please let's only use operators that are on the keys of my > keyboard. I don't fancy having to type key digraphs or trigraphs to try and > write code. > [...] > Why can't the emacs module solution work that was used for the cheverons?
Actually, the solutions aren't that far apart. Andrei's solution displays XXX as YYY, the actual Unicode version you'd still type XXX just it would actually be replaced by YYY instead of just being displayed as YYY. The nice thing about getting such AutoCorrect replacements working well across a wide range of editors is that it has benefits beyond just typing unicode characters. You can have it insert code snippets when you type [[main]] for example, or some people have said that some of the existing characters are hard to type on their non-US keyboards. You could define replacements for those. I'm certainly not saying going Unicode is the right thing to do right now. More like trying to explore what has to change (if anything) before it really becomes viable to introduce Unicode. The topic seems to keep coming up in a lot of places, so I think eventually it is inevitable that we will see more and more languages start using it. ---bb
