tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> writes:
> On 7-Apr-07, at 9:29 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> > The American SCII also breathtakingly sucks at expressiveness, even
> > for many Americans. If you find its expressiveness sufficient, good
> > for you. In most parts of the world it is not.
> Hear-hear. How am I supposed to put a diaresis on a 'y' to indicate
> it is to be pronounced as a separate vowel?
> 
> There's lot of important lexical(sic) symbols that Lex's wish for
> 'pure ASCII' would prevent us using. Smalltalk-return and Smalltalk-
> assign are just two that happen to concern us here and now.


I get the argument for going to Unicode, though that is not without
its problems.  What bugs me is redefining _ and ^ in non-standard
ways.  It's awkward and obscure.


Lex