On Monday, July 8, 2013 4:05:29 AM UTC+2, Volker Braun wrote: > > Frédéric Chapoton has written a patch at http://trac.sagemath.org/14733that > will beautify the Sage startup banner using some UTF-8 characters to > draw the box. This will display incorrectly in terminals that do not > support UTF-8. In that case, Sage still works but the box around the banner > is garbled (most likely rendered by placeholder signs for non-ASCII > characters).
-1 to a UTF-8 banner. There's hardly anything in the sage command line that requires a UTF-8 capable terminal (all the colour stuff should shut off automatically for a "dumb" terminal). Why require it for *just* the banner? More personally, I dislike the UTF-8 banner because it looks too nice. To me it doesn't fit with the simple prompt-and-return-value interface (see banners of magma, maple, R, matlab, pari/GP, python, IPython, GAP, Singular). The "graphics" looking lines are more suggestive of a menu-driven interface to me, like the text-based "dialog" interfaces. So to me, the "+-|"-built borders raise expectations more appropriate for what sage command line offers. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
