On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Alan G Isaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 04:28:55PM -0400, Alan G Isaac wrote: >>> That said, what kind of problems do you have in mind? > > Gael Varoquaux wrote: >> wht I am most worried about is not being able to enter the >> symbol, because I am in an editor I don't know, and the >> symbol is not on my keyboard. This has happened to me more >> than once with unicode. > > Well anyone who travels ends up dealing with strange > keyboards, I suppose, but I would hate for the possibility > that someone is in the odd situation of this happening > while not having access to the net (and thus to Vim or emacs) > dictate the decision on this. That would just not be > very forward looking, especially when one can *in this > case* always use ``dot`` instead.
I absolutely agree with Gael here. Using anything besides lower (<128) ascii is imho not wise. Ondrej _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
