There is no bulletproof way for the program to determine whether the terminal can display unicode. But every half-way recent terminal can, and we have been using unicode in the startup banner for years without problems. I'd just assume that it works by default nowadays.
%display unicode_art also renders symbolics as art sage: %display unicode_art sage: integral(gamma(x), x) ⌠ ⎮ Γ(x) dx ⌡ which should be the default in any system that tries to attain new users. Whereas this is how you dissuade potential new users: sage: integral(gamma(x), x) integrate(gamma(x), x) On Sunday, January 24, 2016 at 12:54:13 PM UTC-5, Nathann Cohen wrote: > > > sage: %display unicode_art > > sage: matrix.block(3,3,[matrix.ones(2)]*9) > > Would it be safe to enable unicode_art on startup if it is supported? > Or does it mean that many objects will be displayed with drawings > instead of their usual representation as a consequence? > > I am trying to figure out *how* to display matrices in unicode by > default when it is supported. > > Nathann > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
