Text-mode apps (Was :Who are the "spacists"?)

MRAB python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Sat Apr 1 14:54:32 EDT 2017


On 2017-04-01 17:43, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Steve D'Aprano <steve+python at pearwood.info>:
>
>> Open your eyes, there is a whole world past the borders of your insular,
>> close-minded little country. 95% of the world is not American, and there
>> are millions of Americans who want to use non-ASCII characters in their
>> file names, even non-Latin characters.
>
> It would be nice to be able to use a / in my file names. Funny enough,
> I'm allowed to use a zillion unprintable characters in my file names but
> no slashes allowed.
>
> Example:
>
>    results-Q2/2017.json
>
>
Try this instead:

     results-Q2∕2017.json

:-)

(It's U+2215 "DIVISION SLASH").



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