Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> writes: > BTW, typing any useful Unicode character is a major unsolved problem.
You typed a good number of Unicode characters in that sentence alone. ASCII is a simple subset of Unicode. I suppose you meant to refer to typing some character not mapped to a single keystroke on a US-English keyboard kayout. You're right, that is a major problem. As for how solved it is, that depends on what you're hoping for as a solution. The conventional solution, which I find to be quite useful for typing characters from a great many different writing systems, is an <URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_method> customised to particular writing systems. My primary input method is one which lets me type typical English text and also easily input a broad range of useful characters with a few mnenonic two- or three-key sequences. > I have created this text file that contains a lot of unicode > characters with their code points. Every once in a while I have to > open the file and copy and paste a character to, say, a Usenet > posting. Cumbersome but necessary. Hopefully your operating system has a good input method system, with many input methods available to choose from. May you find a decent default there. -- \ “It is … incumbent upon us to recognize that it is | `\ inappropriate for religion to play any role in issues of state | _o__) [of] a modern democracy.” —Lawrence M. Krauss, 2012-05-28 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
