Unicode block for programming related symbols and codepoints?

[Jean-François Colson]

Le 09/02/15 00:27, Konstantin Ritt a écrit :
> > My proposal on the other hand - if implemented right - introduces 
> some really intuitive looking and easy to input characters, <snip>
>
> Easier than latin1, a layout one could find on [almost] every 
> keyboard? Good luck.

Latin-1 is not a keyboard layout, it’s a character set: ISO/CEI 8859-1.
Latin-1 is not available on almost every keyboard:
It is not available on most US keyboards except for the minority who 
uses a US international driver;
It is not available on most Russian keyboards which only provide 
Cyrillic letters and ASCII (unaccented) Latin letters;
It is not fully available on many Western European keyboards (With a 
French azerty keyboard on M$ Windows, using the default driver, you have 
no way to type a capital É or a capital Ç except by typing Alt + 0 2 0 1 
or Alt + 0 1 9 9.);
It is not available on keyboards of Central and Eastern European 
keyboards (to the East of Germany, Latin-2);
It is not available on Maltese or Turkish keyboards (Latin-3);
It is not available on keyboards of the Baltic countries (Latin-4);
Etc.


>
> Konstantin
>
> 2015-02-09 2:54 GMT+04:00 Pierpaolo Bernardi <olopierpa at gmail.com 
> <mailto:olopierpa at gmail.com>>:
>
>     On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 11:27 PM, Alfred Zett <alfred_z at web.de
>     <mailto:alfred_z at web.de>> wrote:
>
>     > That was exactly my thought, so I figured it couldn't harm to
>     have these
>
>     >> a Tab is exactly what you described.
>     >
>     > No. It's only half of what I described.
>     > It's still a typographical character that implies whitespace and
>     may appear
>     > everywhere in the text.
>
>     How would your proposed character be displayed as plain text?
>
>     >>> - A codepoint for string literal quotes, that would spare one the
>     >>> escaping.
>     >>
>     >> How would this work exactly?
>     >
>     > Imagine you type " in your IDE, but because your IDE does know
>     that this new
>     > programming language requires this special character as literal
>     token, it
>     > replaces it with a special looking quotation mark.
>
>     Unicode is a standard for plain text.  If you require a special IDE
>     for your programming language then why use plain text at all?
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