ASCII or Unicode? (was best text editor for programming Python on a Mac)
Tim Chase
python.list at tim.thechases.com
Tue Jun 21 11:08:19 EDT 2016
On 2016-06-21 11:35, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> > These are all pretty easy to remember.
> > German umlauts a" o" u" give ä ö ü (or use uppercase)
> > Spanish eña (spelling?) and punctuations: n~ ?? !! --> ñ ¿ ¡
> > French accents: e' e` e^ c, --> é è ê ç
> > Money: c= l- y- c/ --> € £ ¥ ¢
> > Math: =/ -: +- xx <= >= --> ≠ ÷ ± × ≤ ≥
> > Superscripts: ^0 ^1 ^2 ^3 --> ⁰ ¹ ² ³
> > Simple fractions: 12 13 ... 78 --> ½ ⅓ ... ⅞
> > Here's a cute one: CCCP --> ☭ (hammer & sickle)
> > And like your first examples: oo mu ss --> ° µ ß
>
> 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
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