John Hunter wrote: > On 7/16/07, Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I use a good old-fashioned editor called zed, written by an Italian >> named Sandro Serrafini who seems to have left no trace for several >> years. I have modified it slightly, and I do minimal maintenance to >> keep it compiling with new OS releases. Yes, I am familiar with emacs >> and vi and nano and gedit and jed; I periodically survey the field of >> editors. And yes, emacs will brew your morning coffee, but no, it won't >> behave in the sane ways that I like an editor to behave. >> >> So the suggestion to start using unicode in source code is a nightmare >> for me. Ascii is good: simple, universal, easy to work with, easy to >> understand. One byte, one character. Unambiguous. Undoubtedly unicode >> makes sense for the world in the long run, but for me it is an >> unadulterated pain. > > I am a huge emacs user, am am familiar with coffee.el though have > never used it, but I think putting unicode into the src is a bad idea. > Wouldn't this cause potential problems for people working over dumb > terminals?
(Or for dumb people (me) working over terminals? Probably all terminals by now are smarter than I am.) I think that unicode does require a whole level of support--something of a paradigm shift, not quite as jarring as command-line to gui, but still quite a bit of support infrastructure. My understanding is that Python 3000 will be all-unicode, so I will have to get used to it and get a different editor or be left behind. But I am not looking forward to it, and don't want to do it any sooner than I have to. Eric > > JDH ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
