On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 6:52 AM, John Macdonald <j...@perlwolf.com> wrote: > Yep, I've done that. > > But comparing the difference in effort between: > > - press a key > - Google for a web page that has the right character set, cut, refocus, paste > > means that I don't bother for the one or two "weird" characters > every few months that is my current Unicode usage. If I were > working with Unicode frequently, it would be worth setting up > links and mechanisms, or learning the keyboard compose sequences > for frequently used characters. I'm sure that there are many > people in a similar situation.
Agreed. Given the frequency with which « and » come up in Perl 6, I'd love to be able to have a simple keyboard shortcut that produces these two characters. Unfortunately, I am often stuck using a Windows system when coding; and the easiest method that I have available to me there (that I know of) is to pull up Character Map. -- Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang
