Re: [whatwg] Unicode -> ASCII copy/paste fallback

On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 12:34 PM, David Sheets <kosmo.zb@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am writing a documentation generation tool for a programming
> language with right arrows represented as -> but would like to render
> them as →. Programmers are used to writing in ASCII and reading
> typeset mathematics. If I present documentation to them via a
> purpose-built document browser, I should give them the option (at the
> generation/styling stage) of making those documents as pleasing as
> possible.
>

Programmers a decade or two ago, maybe, but not today.

As a programmer, if I see "→" on a page, select it and copy it, I expect to
copy "→", just as I selected.  This sounds like something browsers should
actively discourage.

-- 
Glenn Maynard

Received on Sunday, 15 February 2015 03:17:19 UTC