• Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators

    From om@[email protected] (Otto J. Makela) to comp.lang.c on Wed Oct 23 17:05:07 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.c

    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]d> wrote:

    On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:04:46 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:
    There is no "Compose" key on the keyboard I'm using to type this.

    Remember, you can assign your own keys on *nix GUIs.

    I use Caps Lock for this purpose.

    I've repurposed the bottom row "menu" key on my keyboard,
    since the Mate window manager I use really doesn't require it.

    People who use non-English languages typically have keyboards with
    accented letters and so forth.

    As I have mentioned before, the idea that only “non-English languages” needs such symbols demonstrates a certain ... naïveté.

    I like using compose - > to produce "→" and compose . . for "…"
    even when I'm writing English.
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