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Date Mon, 23 Jul 2012 09:22:10 -0400
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On 07/23/2012 09:06 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
>> Some day, we're going to have programming languages that take advantage
>> of the full unicode character set.  Right now, we're working in ASCII
>> and creating silly digrams/trigrams like r'' for raw strings (and triple-quotes for multi-line
>> strings).  Not to mention <=, >=, ==, !=.  And in languages other than
>> python, things like ->, => (arrows for structure membership), and so on.
> REXX predates Unicode, I think, or at least its widespread adoption,
> but it has a non-ASCII operator:
>
> http://www.rexswain.com/rexx.html#operators
>
> But personally, I've always used backslash. It's nothing to do with
> ASCII and everything to do with having it on the keyboard. Before you
> get a language that uses full Unicode, you'll need to have fairly
> generally available keyboards that have those keys.
>
> ChrisA


Keyboards with 110,000 keys on them; wonderful.  And much larger
characters on the screen, so that all those can be distinguished.  And
of course all fonts have to support all those characters.

Back to 20 character lines.

-- 

DaveA

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  Re: the meaning of r’.......‘ Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-23 08:07 +0000
    Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-07-23 08:55 -0400
      Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......�¾ Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-07-23 23:06 +1000
        Re: the meaning of r¹.......?3Ž4 Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-07-23 09:22 -0400
        Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......�¾ Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-23 15:59 +0000
          Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......�¾ Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-07-24 02:10 +1000
          Re: the meaning of r?.......?¾ Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-07-23 16:46 -0400
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      Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......�¾ Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-07-23 09:22 -0400
        Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......�¾ Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2012-07-24 00:01 -0700
      Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Henrik Faber <hfaber@invalid.net> - 2012-07-23 15:24 +0200
        Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-07-23 23:35 +1000
          Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Henrik Faber <hfaber@invalid.net> - 2012-07-23 15:52 +0200
            Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Henrik Faber <hfaber@invalid.net> - 2012-07-23 15:55 +0200
              Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Henrik Faber <hfaber@invalid.net> - 2012-07-23 15:59 +0200
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> - 2012-07-23 16:08 +0200
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-07-23 15:43 +0100
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                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-07-23 16:29 +0100
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2012-07-23 15:56 +0000
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-07-24 02:09 +1000
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-07-25 00:35 +1000
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-07-25 00:50 +1000
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Maarten <maarten.sneep@knmi.nl> - 2012-07-24 07:44 -0700
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-07-25 13:07 +1000
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-07-25 14:11 +1000
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-25 06:07 +0000
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-07-25 07:37 +0100
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-07-25 16:43 +1000
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-07-25 08:13 +0100
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-07-25 09:21 -0600
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-07-24 10:36 -0600
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-07-25 02:42 +1000
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2012-07-24 09:59 -0700
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2012-07-24 10:02 -0400
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-23 17:10 +0000
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2012-07-23 08:08 -0700
              Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Jan Riechers <janpeterr@freenet.de> - 2012-07-23 21:29 +0300
            Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2012-07-23 10:10 -0400
              Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Henrik Faber <hfaber@invalid.net> - 2012-07-23 16:40 +0200
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-07-24 00:53 +1000
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2012-07-23 11:02 -0400
              Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-23 16:54 +0000
            Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-07-24 00:19 +1000
              Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Henrik Faber <hfaber@invalid.net> - 2012-07-23 16:42 +0200
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-07-23 14:10 -0400
            Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-23 16:53 +0000
        Re: the meaning of r?.......ï¾ MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-07-23 16:46 +0100
        Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-23 16:33 +0000
          Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2012-07-23 14:43 -0400
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      Re: the meaning of r.......ïŸ Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-23 15:49 +0000
        Re: the meaning of r.......ïŸ Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> - 2012-07-26 16:34 +0300
      Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2012-07-23 12:19 -0400
      Re: the meaning of r?.......?¾ Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-07-23 13:44 -0400
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