Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Tim Chase Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: ASCII or Unicode? (was best text editor for programming Python on a Mac) Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 10:08:19 -0500 Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <242caeee-f489-4956-8261-680fe49f402d@googlegroups.com> <576747c1$0$1585$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <57676318$0$1621$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <87shw7gcrj.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <20160621100819.49675391@bigbox.christie.dr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 0YUiZTitf65yyevMtFr8pg+qewmMNn+VAqo8W9dDTtTA== Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.000 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:text': 0.04; 'subject:Python': 0.05; '(using': 0.07; 'patterns.': 0.07; 'subject:editor': 0.07; 'subject: \n ': 0.15; '"-"': 0.16; '"|"': 0.16; '(either': 0.16; '-tkc': 0.16; 'examples:': 0.16; 'from:addr:python.list': 0.16; 'from:addr:tim.thechases.com': 0.16; 'from:name:tim chase': 0.16; 'received:io': 0.16; 'received:psf.io': 0.16; 'stuff.': 0.16; 'subject:Mac': 0.16; 'subject:Unicode': 0.16; 'subject:programming': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'are.': 0.22; 'bit': 0.23; '(or': 0.23; 'header:In-Reply- To:1': 0.24; "i've": 0.25; 'followed': 0.27; 'looks': 0.29; 'occasionally': 0.29; 'character': 0.29; 'guess': 0.31; 'german': 0.32; 'surprised': 0.33; 'trouble': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; 'to:addr :python-list': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'received:10': 0.37; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'easy': 0.60; 'your': 0.60; 'received:23': 0.84; 'subscripts': 0.84; '\xe2\x82\xac': 0.91 X-Sender-Id: wwwh|x-authuser|tim@thechases.com X-Sender-Id: wwwh|x-authuser|tim@thechases.com X-MC-Relay: Neutral X-MailChannels-SenderId: wwwh|x-authuser|tim@thechases.com X-MailChannels-Auth-Id: wwwh X-MC-Loop-Signature: 1466521701823:1541782062 X-MC-Ingress-Time: 1466521701822 In-Reply-To: <87shw7gcrj.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.1 (GTK+ 2.24.25; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-AuthUser: tim@thechases.com X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-Mailman-Original-Message-ID: <20160621100819.49675391@bigbox.christie.dr> X-Mailman-Original-References: <242caeee-f489-4956-8261-680fe49f402d@googlegroups.com> <576747c1$0$1585$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <57676318$0$1621$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <87shw7gcrj.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:110242 On 2016-06-21 11:35, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > > These are all pretty easy to remember. > > German umlauts a" o" u" give =C3=A4 =C3=B6 =C3=BC (or use uppercase) > > Spanish e=C3=B1a (spelling?) and punctuations: n~ ?? !! --> =C3=B1 = =C2=BF =C2=A1 > > French accents: e' e` e^ c, --> =C3=A9 =C3=A8 =C3=AA =C3=A7 > > Money: c=3D l- y- c/ --> =E2=82=AC =C2=A3 =C2=A5 =C2=A2 > > Math: =3D/ -: +- xx <=3D >=3D --> =E2=89=A0 =C3=B7 =C2=B1 =C3=97 =E2= =89=A4 =E2=89=A5 > > Superscripts: ^0 ^1 ^2 ^3 --> =E2=81=B0 =C2=B9 =C2=B2 =C2=B3 > > Simple fractions: 12 13 ... 78 --> =C2=BD =E2=85=93 ... =E2=85=9E > > Here's a cute one: CCCP --> =E2=98=AD (hammer & sickle) > > And like your first examples: oo mu ss --> =C2=B0 =C2=B5 =C3=9F =20 >=20 > Trouble is, nobody's going to guess or memorize any of that stuff. I've been pleasantly surprised by how guessable most of them are. Occasionally I have to dig a bit deeper, but for diacritics, superscripts (using the "^", as well as subscripts using "_"), fractions, and arrows (either a "-" or a "|" followed by a character that looks like the arrow-head "<>v^") are all pretty easy to guess when you understand the patterns. -tkc