> On 9 Feb 2015, at 22:07, Jean-François Colson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > But if a left arrow, for example, might be a better choice for an >> > assignment >> > operator in a programming language, and a two-character ASCII operator >> > like ":=" or "<-" doesn't seem appropriate or causes other confusion, there >> > still isn't a character *encoding* issue here. Just use "←", which already >> > exists (U+2190), >> > and is a fine left arrow! >> >> There are also >> ≔ COLON EQUALS U+2254 >> and others. >> >> No problems using such characters in Flex: >> >> The problem is the lack of input methods. > > No problem for me: I can input a ← by typing either Alt Gr + 4 (on the > numeric keypad) or compose + < + - > I have no way to type "colon equals" but to type it as compose + : + = I > should simply add one single line to my ~/.XCompose file: > <Multi_key> <colon> <equal> : U2254 > and restart my text editor. That isn't more difficult than that. The problem is that there are a lot of characters and rather time consuming to design ones own input methods. _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list [email protected] http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
