[Python-ideas] Visually confusable unicode characters in identifiers
Stephen J. Turnbull
stephen at xemacs.org
Fri Oct 5 05:11:34 CEST 2012
Ben Finney writes:
> I've shown several LaTeX-comfortable people IBus on GNOME and/or KDE
> (for GNU+Linux), and they were very glad that it has a LaTeX input
> method.
I'm happy to be proved wrong!
> > AFAICS it's not available on my Mac.
>
> That's a shame. Maybe some OS vendors don't want to support users
> extending the OS functionality? Or maybe your OS does have such a thing
> available. I haven't been motivated to look for it.
I have looked for it; if it's available on Mac OS X, it's not easy to
find. I suspect the same is true for Windows.
> Agreed. Which is why I advocate installing such an input method in one's
> OS input method engine, so that input method is available for all
> applications.
Whatever makes you think I don't? That's *exactly* why I live in
XEmacs, because it provides me with a portable environment for mixing
English and math with a language whose orthography puts Brainf*ck
syntax to shame.
But pragmatically speaking, Unicode support is a sore point for
Python. "Screw you if you don't know how to conveniently input
integral signs on your OS" is not a message we want to be sending.
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