Increasing the diversity of people who write Python (was: Benefits of unicode identifiers)

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Mon Nov 27 13:15:57 EST 2017


On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 5:13 AM, Skip Montanaro
<skip.montanaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If you have a Windows key, you can assign it to be
>> the Compose key.
>
> Would this be true on a machine running Windows? My work environment
> has me developing on Linux, with a Windows desktop. It's not clear to
> me that any sort of xmodmap shennanigans would work. Won't Windows
> itself always gobble up that key?

Now that, I can't tell you about. As mentioned, the specific system I
was using was provided by X11, so it wouldn't work on anything else.
(Don't know about Wayland; I think it might have an equivalent.) For
other window managers, you'd have to find some alternative.

ChrisA



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