On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:40:34PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 10:57:44PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > Nice, I like these: ｢｣｢｣｢｣｢｣｢｣｢｣ :) Now I wonder how to type these on a
> > keyboard with German keyboard layout. Hmmm, Alt-Gr-S is ſ but that is not
> > the
> > same as ｢. Hmmm, did not find it.
>
> I don't know of any preconfigured way to type these; I for one use a Compose
> sequence but a more convenient binding could be nice. Especially if we
> could agree on something ("Alt-[" ?) and submit upstream to X guys.
>
> '｢'/'｣' are "halfwidth" (ie, normal width) version of Chinese/Japanese
> quotes: '「'/'」' which would be problematic in most settings because
> support for double-width characters is often lacking.
>
> Among other alternatives, »foo« are worse as their direction is
> inconsistent: I was taught »foo« but some countries use «foo», the French
> "« foo »", Swedes »foo»; “foo” is unwise to use together with ".
>
>
> It's nice to have a set of unambiguous quotation marks that are not used by
> the shell, so you can quote shell commands without confusion.
>
> On the other hand, I heard Perl6 uses ｢｣ quotes; among their other Unicode
> uses, this is the only pair of characters that has seen wide adoption.
OK. I'm using sakura as terminal. What do I have to do to get these
characters to show up as proper characters instead of little boxes with
hexadecimal? I'd also like to get kanji to show up properly again.
-- hendrik
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