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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:50:35 +1000
Subject: Re: Unicode in Python
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>> it's impossible for most people to type (and programming with a palette
>> of arbitrary syntactic tokens isn't my idea of fun)...
>
> Where's the suggestion to use a "palette of arbitrary tokens" ?
>
> I just tried a greek keyboard; ie do
> $ setxkbmap -option "grp:switch,grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll" -lay=
out "us,gr"
>
> Thereafter typing
> abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
> after a Shift-Alt
> gives
> =CE=B1=CE=B2=CF=88=CE=B4=CE=B5=CF=86=CE=B3=CE=B7=CE=B9=CE=BE=CE=BA=CE=BB=
=CE=BC=CE=BD=CE=BF=CF=80;=CF=81=CF=83=CF=84=CE=B8=CF=89=CF=82=CF=87=CF=85=
=CE=B6
>
> One more Shift-Alt and back to roman

Okay. Now what about your other symbols? Your alternative assignment
operator, for instance. How do you type that?

ChrisA