Python usage numbers

[Nick Dokos]

rusi <rustompmody at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Feb 12, 10:51 am, Steven D'Aprano <steve
> +comp.lang.pyt... at pearwood.info> wrote:
> > On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:38:37 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > > Everything that displays text to a human needs to translate bytes into
> > > glyphs, and the usual way to do this conceptually is to go via
> > > characters. Pretending that it's all the same thing really means
> > > pretending that one byte represents one character and that each
> > > character is depicted by one glyph. And that's doomed to failure, unless
> > > everyone speaks English with no foreign symbols - so, no mathematical
> > > notations.
> >
> > Pardon me, but you can't even write *English* in ASCII.
> >
> > You can't say that it cost you £10 to courier your résumé to the head
> > office of Encyclopædia Britanica to apply for the position of Staff
> > Coördinator. (Admittedly, the umlaut on the second "o" looks a bit stuffy
> > and old-fashioned, but it is traditional English.)
> >
> > Hell, you can't even write in *American*: you can't say that the recipe
> > for the 20¢ WobblyBurger™ is © 2012 WobblyBurgerWorld Inc.
> 
> [Quite OT but...] How do you type all this?
> [Note: I grew up on APL so unlike Rick I am genuinely asking :-) ]

[Emacs speficic]

Many different ways of course, but in emacs, you can select e.g. the TeX input method
with C-x RET C-\ TeX RET.
which does all of the above symbols with the exception of the cent
symbol (or maybe I missed it) - you type the thing in the first column and you
get the thing in the second column

\pounds £
\'e     é
\ae     æ
\"o     ö
^{TM}   ™
\copyright ©

I gave up on the cent symbol and used ucs-insert (C-x 8 RET) which allows you to type
a name, in this case CENT SIGN to get ¢.

Nick