On Monday, 5 October 2015 22:36:30 UTC-7, [email protected] wrote:
>
> On Mon, 5 Oct 2015, Dima Pasechnik wrote: 
>
> > In docstrings we have \leq converted to <=, can't we use unicode, and 
> > get ≤? More importantly, can we do similar things to \cap (∩) and \cup 
> > (∪), and perhaps even more of this? 
>
> What we assume the user to have on command line? 
>

IMHO we can assume a UTF-8 capable terminal.
(Perhaps not for input, but for output for sure)

>
> I just read your email in real Linux console, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. \cap was 
> OK, \cup was shown as a kind of diamond. In this gnome-terminal on X that 
> I normally use for email everything is fine. 
>

I wrote the message in a web interface to google groups, and pasted UTF-8
symbols from some other webpage. I'm glad that it looks OK.. :-)

I looked a bit more into this, and it looks as if Python 3 supports this 
more or less
out of the box, but on Python 2 one would need to import stuff from 
__future__.



 

>
> Personally I don't mind the change, and I am sure that nobody whose 
> computer support I am will complain. 
>
>   * * * 
>
> Btw, I have corrected M\"obius function to Möbius function in docs. I hope 
> that it is OK for everyone. (Linux has used US keyboard layout as a 
> default from 0.03 I think. Before it was finnish layout. :=) ) 
>
> -- 
> Jori Mäntysalo

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