Can users with international keyboards tell me if they have problems typing
the left-quote ( ` ) character? It isn't used much in Python but we are
thinking of giving it a slightly more important role in Prothon. (I'm not
going to say what that role is here to avoid starting another 300 message
thread like I did last time :-) If you are curious you can go to the
Prothon mailing lists at http://prothon.org). 16 1750
"Mark Hahn" <ma**@prothon.o rg> writes: Can users with international keyboards tell me if they have problems typing the left-quote ( ` ) character?
For keyboards using the "combining" key in the place for = and + on US
keyboards, it's one more key to type (the key plus space). Not a big
deal, we get used to it. :)
"Mark Hahn" <ma**@prothon.o rg> wrote in
news:buLwc.6092 5$zN5.390@fed1r ead01: Can users with international keyboards tell me if they have problems typing the left-quote ( ` ) character? It isn't used much in Python but we are thinking of giving it a slightly more important role in Prothon. (I'm not going to say what that role is here to avoid starting another 300 message thread like I did last time :-) If you are curious you can go to the Prothon mailing lists at http://prothon.org).
i can type it as combined character,
but i'd recomend against it. ' and ` are hard to distinguish for people
with not so good sight. and the meaning/effect isnt obvious anyway.
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Chris <cl******@gmx.n et>
Mark Hahn wrote: Can users with international keyboards tell me if they have problems typing the left-quote ( ` ) character? It isn't used much in Python but we are thinking of giving it a slightly more important role in Prothon. (I'm not going to say what that role is here to avoid starting another 300 message thread like I did last time :-) If you are curious you can go to the Prothon mailing lists at http://prothon.org).
For French keyboards, it's "Right ALT + 7" sometimes followed by a space
( yeah, sometimes it's a deadkey like ^ and " are )
Christophe Cavalaria wrote: Mark Hahn wrote:
Can users with international keyboards tell me if they have problems typing the left-quote ( ` ) character? It isn't used much in Python but we are thinking of giving it a slightly more important role in Prothon. (I'm not going to say what that role is here to avoid starting another 300 message thread like I did last time :-) If you are curious you can go to the Prothon mailing lists at http://prothon.org).
For French keyboards, it's "Right ALT + 7" sometimes followed by a space ( yeah, sometimes it's a deadkey like ^ and " are )
What does deadkey mean?
Mark Hahn wrote: What does deadkey mean?
The same as 'combined key' above. It doesn't immediately produce output,
instead you can press some other key after it, ` + a = à, and you can
produce the literal with ` + space.
Anyway, it really is a bit hard to discern from ' or ´, even though it
would otherwise be a great character to be used as an operator in
programming languages :)
On the standard Finnish layout there is one key with three dead meanings
on it, which can be alternated with shift and altgr - a truly wonderful
piece of engineering that leads to 4 key combinations producing
characters such as  :)
Tuure Laurinolli wrote: Mark Hahn wrote:
What does deadkey mean?
The same as 'combined key' above. It doesn't immediately produce output, instead you can press some other key after it, ` + a = à, and you can produce the literal with ` + space.
Thanks. I can see where the name comes from.
I never thought of it being used as an accent mark. I always thought of it
as a crummy left-quote. That explains why it is always drawn so high.
We are thinking of using it as a marker for "symbols" in Prothon. They are
like strings but can only be legal variable labels: `var, `init_, `x,
`account_balanc e, etc. I think in our application they look good and won't
be mistaken for quotes since they don't come in pairs. They are readable
and distinquishable in this context. Also, symbols won't be used that
frequently so typing won't be too much of a pain.
Mark Hahn wrote: We are thinking of using it as a marker for "symbols" in Prothon. They are like strings but can only be legal variable labels: `var, `init_, `x, `account_balanc e, etc. I think in our application they look good and won't be mistaken for quotes since they don't come in pairs. They are readable and distinquishable in this context. Also, symbols won't be used that frequently so typing won't be too much of a pain.
Why not use something like $ or something? I'm not familiar with Prothon, so
I don't know if $ is already used for something, but it's a character
normally used with symbols/placeholders/etc.
--
Timo "WT" Virkkala
"Mark Hahn" <ma**@prothon.o rg> writes: I never thought of it being used as an accent mark. I always thought of it as a crummy left-quote. That explains why it is always drawn so high.
You may want to have a look at
<http://www.cl.cam.ac.u k/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html>
for details. Personally, I don't think it was a good idea to define
character 0x60 as GRAVE ACCENT, but that's what we have ...
--
Michael Piotrowski, M.A. <mx*@dynalabs.d e>
Public key at <http://www.dynalabs.de/mxp/pubkey.txt>
Timo Virkkala wrote: Mark Hahn wrote: We are thinking of using it as a marker for "symbols" in Prothon. They are like strings but can only be legal variable labels: `var, `init_, `x, `account_balanc e, etc. I think in our application they look good and won't be mistaken for quotes since they don't come in pairs. They are readable and distinquishable in this context. Also, symbols won't be used that frequently so typing won't be too much of a pain.
Why not use something like $ or something? I'm not familiar with Prothon, so I don't know if $ is already used for something, but it's a character normally used with symbols/placeholders/etc.
We aren't using any of the oddball symbols any more, so $ is free. I'm a
little wary of proposing using it though. The last time I proposed using $
Prothon was accused of being Perl :-)
I'll put it up for vote on the Prothon mailing list. You can come by and
vote for it :-)
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