Re: what I learned from today's discussion of delimiters

What's that saying? Please some of the people all of the time....

On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 at 15:24, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
<cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com> wrote:


> In any case, convenience of typing and being in ASCII are not really the
> same.  They may be roughly the same on U.S. and for the most part on
> U.K. keyboards, but my recollection is that getting some ASCII
> characters -- in particular < and > -- was much more complicated on
> Norwegian keyboards than I had ever imagined.  (Well, not *that*
> complicated, but I believe it involved both the Alt-Gr key and the shift
> key as well as a third key.)  In Norway, discussions about raw XML or
> HTML being easy to type always rang a little hollow.

Seems Steven has hit that barrier already? {} pair are in the same category
in Norway (source Lars).

<> You used Alt Gr + shift + plus one of the two keys on the right of
‘M’ on the keyboard. It was a bit awkward.

Same for {}, which programmers need.

The thing is Norwegian has to give three keys over to æøå, which
leaves less room for these symbols.

So trying to be globally polite seems a hiding to nothing.

regards





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