- From: Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
- Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2023 15:06:07 +0000
- To: graydonish@gmail.com, "Norm Tovey-Walsh" <norm@saxonica.com>
- Cc: Dorothy Hoskins <dorothy.hoskins@gmail.com>, "Liam R. E. Quin" <liam@fromoldbooks.org>, public-ixml@w3.org
> I take the position that ixml is esoteric by its nature; it's an unusual > formal grammar applicable to an inherently niche purpose. (Also that > "standard keyboard" really ought not to mean ASCII this millennium.) > > The good thing about a specific character is that it's simple and > obvious. If I can properly be expected to (and I can!) use é or å or ç > in a person's name, it's not any stretch to use Unicode symbols in a > programming language. I both agree and disagree. I agree that we really should be able to start using non ASCII characters in languages. On the other hand, I am currently writing a maths book with lots of ←↑→↓↟⇓, and frankly it's a pain... input methods have to get better first. Steven
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