#14733: pretty unicode banner
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Reporter: chapoton | Owner: tbd
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_review
Priority: minor | Milestone: sage-5.11
Component: user interface | Resolution:
Keywords: banner, unicode | Merged in:
Authors: Frédéric Chapoton | Reviewers: Volker Braun
Report Upstream: N/A | Work issues:
Branch: | Dependencies: #14559
Stopgaps: |
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Comment (by was):
Replying to [comment:29 chapoton]:
> well, there seems to be no much hope to get that patch in sage, so let
me keep the patch as it is for the moment.
I used the patch, and I think it is beautiful. I completely disagree with
the comments such as " I dislike the UTF-8 banner because it looks too
nice." and "Keep the banner short and simple ; people don't come to sage
to enjoy that sight!" Clean beauty is exactly what people (at least
me!) want in software. The banner in Sage right now, which I probably
wrote (?), looks frankly ugly and like a hack, compared to the one on this
patch.
Also, UTF is clearly the future of strings, having native default support
in modern interpreters, editors, etc., and also being critical to
supporting users who aren't using English.
This patch is along the same lines as the recent inclusion of a nice color
prompt (thanks volker), in that it makes Sage prettier and more pleasant
to use.
So my strong vote *for* this ticket. Moreover, I like it so much I'll be
henceforth applying it to the standard system-wide version of Sage at
https://cloud.sagemath.com, even if it doesn't get into Sage. In
particular, I disagree with " If you're doing something that requires nice
output you should probably be using a notebook interface anyways" -- since
the terminal interface *is* part of the notebook interface now, and it
must look nice.
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