On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:40:34PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 10:57:44PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Nice, I like these: 「」「」「」「」「」「」 :) Now I wonder how to type these on a > > keyboard with German keyboard layout. Hmmm, Alt-Gr-S is ſ but that is not > > the > > same as 「. Hmmm, did not find it. > > I don't know of any preconfigured way to type these; I for one use a Compose > sequence but a more convenient binding could be nice. Especially if we > could agree on something ("Alt-[" ?) and submit upstream to X guys. > > '「'/'」' are "halfwidth" (ie, normal width) version of Chinese/Japanese > quotes: '「'/'」' which would be problematic in most settings because > support for double-width characters is often lacking. > > Among other alternatives, »foo« are worse as their direction is > inconsistent: I was taught »foo« but some countries use «foo», the French > "« foo »", Swedes »foo»; “foo” is unwise to use together with ". > > > It's nice to have a set of unambiguous quotation marks that are not used by > the shell, so you can quote shell commands without confusion. > > On the other hand, I heard Perl6 uses 「」 quotes; among their other Unicode > uses, this is the only pair of characters that has seen wide adoption.
OK. I'm using sakura as terminal. What do I have to do to get these characters to show up as proper characters instead of little boxes with hexadecimal? I'd also like to get kanji to show up properly again. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng