[Cuis] New updates: Mathematical symbols in Smalltalk code

[Luciano Notarfrancesco]

Haha, I need a white marker to draw a vertical line under the ^ of my
keyboards, and a < besides the underscore! (Or a >, I'm not decided on the
left vs. right arrow, tradition vs. correctness)

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 6:18 PM, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:

> D.,
>
> The character set convention is only seen within the image.
>
> Saving and loading of text files is UTF8. Copy/paste through the
> clipboard as well.
>
> So as a user of Cuis you do not see the internal custom character set
> convention.
>
> As you note there is the issue of keyboarding, but I assume we will
> find a good solution.
>
> --Hannes
>
> On 12/3/15, dsg <dgraham at unthinkable.org> wrote:
> > Ugh, I hate to take this position in light of your effort, but I'd like
> to
> > propose Cuis head the other direction and adopt a strict a ISO 8859-15
> > character set for the core system.  I agree that the changes have greater
> > semantic value, but none of these keys are available on standardized
> > keyboards, and IMHO, they do more harm than good in regards to the user
> > experience.
> >
> > Consider this, at some point every new Cuis user is forced to stop
> > exploring
> > this wonderful new system and google "how do I type an up arrow" and then
> > "how do I type an left arrow".  I know there is a switch to change this
> > behavior, but it impacts non-coding applications as well... has anyone
> else
> > been surprised to see a left arrow instead of an underscore while taking
> > notes in TextEditor?
> >
> > OTOH, if anyone does a Cuis keyboard kickstarter, I'll buy. :)
> >
> >
> >
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