Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas writes:
On Nov 7, 2019, at 19:59, Chris Angelico
wrote: And I do the same with the operators that you disparagingly call "ASCII soup". I touch type them. What's the difference, other than that I can transfer my knowledge of typing English?
Well, there’s also the fact that you can touch type them into Mail.app and pine and a StackOverflow answer box and a blog comment and a general purpose text editor and get the exact same result you get in PyCharm or PyDev. That’s a pretty huge difference, which the OP is ignoring.
I don't think there would be a difference nowadays. I type Japanese encoded in Unicode into Mail.app and Emacs and Nano and web forms all the time; they're perfectly happy with Unicode. The question is what will the *audience* do with those unfamiliar symbols? Steve