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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 05:58:17 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:04:46 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
>>
>> On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 12:46:55 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:
>>>
>>> A problem with using non-ASCII Unicode characters as operator names is
>>> that they can be difficult to type -- and the way you type them is
>>> inconsistent across systems.
>>
>> The best way is the Compose key available on *nix systems. This is the
>> closest to a mnemonic-based system that reduces the burden on your
>> memory.
>>
>> <https://wiki.wlug.org.nz/ComposeKey>
> 
> There is no "Compose" key on the keyboard I'm using to type this.

Remember, you can assign your own keys on *nix GUIs.

I use Caps Lock for this purpose.

> People who use non-English languages typically have keyboards with
> accented letters and so forth.

As I have mentioned before, the idea that only “non-English languages” 
needs such symbols demonstrates a certain ... naïveté.

Lawrence
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