Re: Unicode block for programming related symbols and codepoints?

> My proposal on the other hand - if implemented right - introduces some
really intuitive looking and easy to input characters, <snip>

Easier than latin1, a layout one could find on [almost] every keyboard?
Good luck.

Konstantin

2015-02-09 2:54 GMT+04:00 Pierpaolo Bernardi <olopierpa_at_gmail.com>:

> On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 11:27 PM, Alfred Zett <alfred_z_at_web.de> wrote:
>
> > That was exactly my thought, so I figured it couldn't harm to have these
>
> >> a Tab is exactly what you described.
> >
> > No. It's only half of what I described.
> > It's still a typographical character that implies whitespace and may
> appear
> > everywhere in the text.
>
> How would your proposed character be displayed as plain text?
>
> >>> - A codepoint for string literal quotes, that would spare one the
> >>> escaping.
> >>
> >> How would this work exactly?
> >
> > Imagine you type " in your IDE, but because your IDE does know that this
> new
> > programming language requires this special character as literal token, it
> > replaces it with a special looking quotation mark.
>
> Unicode is a standard for plain text. If you require a special IDE
> for your programming language then why use plain text at all?
> _______________________________________________
> Unicode mailing list
> Unicode_at_unicode.org
> http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
>

_______________________________________________
Unicode mailing list
Unicode_at_unicode.org
http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
Received on Sun Feb 08 2015 - 17:30:02 CST