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Re:Programming languages, operating systems, despair and ang... by jdpage on Monday June 30, 2014 @05:43PM (#7967916)
Ooh, I'm seeing some non-ASCII characters here. How are you handling that? Can I use => instead of ⇨ and <- instead of ←? How do you usually type those? Is there a way of ASCII-ifying or de-ASCII-ifying source files?
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Re:Programming languages, operating systems, despair and ang... by mpweiher on Monday June 30, 2014 @07:54PM (#7968426)
Yep, the non-ASCII chars have ASCII equivalents.

They aren't finalized yet, as the whole "architecture connection/configuration" part of the language has barely been begun.

In fact, the non-ASCII chars are a recent experiment, but so far I like it a lot. Now that even shells and vi know about Unicode/UTF8, maybe it's time to take advantage of the rich typography we have.

I am typing those characters using a keyboard map I created in Ukelele.app (http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=...).

The left arrows are mapped to Alt-[ and Alt-{ , the right arrows to Alt-] and Alt-}.

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