Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 05:58:17 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <87a5gwctw0.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <87a5gwb3dt.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 07:58:17 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a3e0b73fdd7ebf903f98fecca6ec3d09"; logging-data="4062730"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18hqMj1jhMAwD2wwobpOmAO" User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7vPtbIMl+7McOQtioe97wLtDXA4= Bytes: 2272 On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:04:46 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote: > Lawrence D'Oliveiro 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. >> >> > > 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 living near a district named Waipā, down the road from Tāmaki Makaurau recently bought a product from overseas priced in £ has published software subject to ©