From: Hans Aberg (haberg@math.su.se)
Date: Fri May 25 2007 - 06:20:43 CDT
On 25 May 2007, at 01:57, JFC Morfin wrote:
> The need I have is for transliteration of programming variables,
> code ID, etc. from ASCII keyboards to non-ASCII keyboards.
As for programming languages, I have experimented (in a theorem
prover) using both Unicode symbols and ASCII names aside by side. My
conclusions is that this is a poor approach. Compare with the hassle
of C/C++ trigraphs. Better to only use Unicode symbols.
Then the next problem is to enter these symbols efficiently.
Developing ones own keyboard maps for the large numbers of math
symbols takes a lot of time.
So I think, best would be some set of Unicode keyboard maps, just
designed to enter the characters as efficiently as possible. These
might then move away from traditional QWERTY-like keyboard maps for
ASCII: ABCDEF seems the right thing, here. :-)
Hans Aberg
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