In article <e7f457b3-7d49-4c95-bd95-e0f27fa66...@s8g2000pbj.googlegroups.com>, rusi <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 12, 10:51 am, Steven D'Aprano <steve > +comp.lang.pyt...@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 :-) ] What I do (on a Mac) is open the Keyboard Viewer thingie and try various combinations of shift-control-option-command-function until the thing I'm looking for shows up on a keycap. A few of them I've got memorized (for example, option-8 gets you a bullet ). I would imagine if you commonly type in a language other than English, you would quickly memorize the ones you use a lot. Or, open the Character Viewer thingie and either hunt around the various drill-down menus (North American Scripts / Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, for example) or type in some guess at the official unicode name into the search box.
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