Adding Unicode operators to D
Simen Kjaeraas
simen.kjaras at gmail.com
Fri Oct 24 09:34:43 PDT 2008
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:28:51 +0200, Bruno Medeiros
<brunodomedeiros+spam at com.gmail> wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Please vote up before the haters take it down, and discuss:
>>
>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/78rjk/allowing_unicode_operators_in_d_similarly_to/
>> Andrei
>
> I'm unsure about this idea.
>
> I don't know if it would be worthwhile, but I would say there are two
> aspects that likely would need to be observed for this to work out
> favorably:
>
> * Having non-unicode versions of the symbols/keywords available in
> Unicode, such that non-Uunicode editing and viewing is always possible
> as a fallback. This has some important consequences though, such as
> making Unicode-symbol-usage unable to solve the shortage of brackets
> for, for example, the template instantiation syntax (because an
> alternative ASCII notation would still be necessary).
>
> * Having a way to directly input the Unicode symbols in the keyboard.
> One reason is because of typing succinctness, and another, is because I
> find the alternative (have the editor/IDE automatically change an ASCII
> character sequence into a Unicode symbol) to have several disadvantages:
> First is that it doesn't work outside the editors/IDEs configured to do
> so, (which is a bummer, there is actually plenty of code written outside
> that: newsgroups, articles, forums, bug reports, IRC, etc.). Second, I
> personally like that the editor always require exactly N backspaces to
> erase N typed characters[*].
>
> So, anyone knows if it is possible on Windows (I believe in Unix it is)
> to configure your keyboard mapping with custom settings? For example, if
> I press AltGr-O, it inputs some Unicode character of my choosing?
I'd guess this oughtta do it:
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx
--
Simen
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