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

[Paul Moore]

On 27 November 2017 at 18:13, 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?

Programs can access the Windows key. IIRC, there is a utility that
provides compose-key functionality on Windows. I can't recall the name
right now and it's on my other PC, not this one, but I'll try to
remember to post the name tomorrow...

Paul