Squeak-dev/Squeak-web image v95-2

Philippe Marschall philippe.marschall at gmail.com
Wed Apr 4 11:32:55 UTC 2007


2007/4/4, Matthew Fulmer <tapplek at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 09:59:27PM -0700, tim Rowledge wrote:
> >
> > On 3-Apr-07, at 9:54 PM, Joshua Gargus wrote:
> >
> > >I'm looking forward to when underscore-leftarrow is REALLY REALLY
> > >gone and we can start having proper-looking OpenGL constants
> > >("GL_MODELVIEW_MATRIX" instead of "GLModelviewMatrix").  I like the
> > >left-arrow too, but can't we please just leave it to the pretty-
> > >printer?
> > Personally I *hate* underscore pseudopunctuation but what does it
> > have to do with using a proper leftarrow? We have unicode. Codepoint
> > 2190 apparently. Come to that we have codepoint 2191 for  a proper
> > uparrow as well. Time we used them. := is for Pascal weenies.
>
> How could anyone type such a character? would we modify the
> mass-produced keyboard, or create some partially obscure input
> method? Of course, it would be easy with a pen. I don't
> understand how Unicode will be anything other than a curiosity
> as long as the keyboard stays around. Of course, that may have
> something to do with living in the US, where nobody understands
> culture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode#Input_methods

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