Unicode vs. Programming Languages

Hehe and an IDE that automatically makes the replacement after you type the ascii combinations.
Because I don’t want to enter the unicode when writing one of those

Tobias:that’s an easy part,as there are a lot of utilities which do such changes in any application (I know at least 2 such tools for mac and 1 such tool for windows)

But what for?
Could you tell in details?

endeveit:because it looks cool

a = 2;
b = 30;
с ={qq:3,zz:4}

while (b ≥ a){
a ×= c→qq;
}

↑b;

Hmmm…what about unicode keyboards?

- typing unicode ->no way

- auto replacement ->i’d rather have “what you type is what you get”

- pretty printing ->tools like a2ps have been supporting this for ages

- and then there’s the situation every once in a while where you have to modify code on a deployment system on which $EDITOR is not unicode aware yet …

@Regin Too many keys:p

hartmut:
- typing unicode can be not-so-painful if OS gives a helping hand
- auto replacement is a personal choice

anyway,I think I made it clear,that both of these options (good’ol ascii and pretty unicode) should be supported by compilers/interpreters,imho.

and non-unicode-aware editor is something I don’t want to face (actually I am quite happy,that these days I can use unicode on mac,linux,freebsd,openbsd and solaris)

and pretty-printing is a source of confusion… because whenever you read pretty-printed document and try to type it in,you get problems…

Here you already see the problems,Unicode introduces:The replacement you want for “->”(an Arrow) renders as “>”on my computer that doesn’t have a very exotic configuration:WinXP + Firefox (German version both)

Sebastian:that just means,that your font doesn’t support that symbol…

Unfortunately,a lot of windows-fonts have poor unicode-support.

Looks very unusual
Maybe it is power of habit or inertness of thinking

Perl 6:
http://dev.perl.org/perl6/faq.html:
user-definable operators (from the full Unicode set)
and http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/syn/S03.html#Hyper_Operators

I’ve got 10000 unicode symbol table here..
http://kurapov.name/unicode/

sounds like you are looking for Perl6

Here’s an implementation for PHP6…Have fun with it!

http://blog.libssh2.org/index.php?/archives/69-Fun-with-unicode.html

Dominik del Bondio:user-definable operators are possible in Haskell (and I guess some other languages) too…

I want to see that as a “native feature”(aliased to standard ascii-operators)

Finally,a use for all the keys on the space cadet keyboard!

[...] Sara Golemon,being interested in Unicode as she is,decided to investigate further when she saw a recent post about issues with Unicode math symbols: Being a whimsical sort,I decided that actually implementing his request would be more fun than simply pish-poshing it. I’m not suggesting this be part of PHP6 (I still don’t personally think it’s a good idea),but it’s a fun exercise and good for a conversation starter…[...]

I would love this to happen.
If I can input these things easily..
Like every time I want a square root sign I have to go to online and search “square root UTF”to find it.

Mgcci:such input is easily achieved using macro-expanders… such as TextExpander (on mac)

I am sure there are similiar tools for other platforms