On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:17:57 -0800, bearophileHUGS wrote: > Ben Finney: > >> Many of us solve this by using a single full-featured programmer's >> editor that allows invoking a program +IBQ- written in any of *dozens >> or hundreds* of different languages +IBQ- from within the editor. > > I don't know what an IBQ is.
+IBQ- seems to be the way your newsreader displays the dashes that where in Ben's posting. I see "em dash" characters there: In [84]: unicodedata.name(u'—') Out[84]: 'EM DASH' Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list