Re^6: 'use' inside or outside of package declaration?

The big question is: Where do you get a font with a "pouting cat face?"
Never mind, I didn’t have symbola, installed on this computer.

What are you using to type? I see you have U+2010 HYPHEN instead of the ASCII hyphin-minus character.

I find wide strings to be a pain in C++/Windows. I suppose it was a good idea at the time of development of NT 3, since UTF-8 was a footnote and not the force for good as we understand it today. Still, at some point they could have made the "code page" for UTF-8 (which is defined) work correctly for the 8-bit char API functions. For all I know it should: it just wraps the native calls around a call to convert, and the convert function handles that one, right?

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Re^7: 'use' inside or outside of package declaration? by tchrist (Pilgrim) on May 12, 2011 at 14:37 UTC
The big question is: Where do you get a font with a "pouting cat face?" Never mind, I didn’t have symbola, installed on this computer. Yeah, Symbola is great, isn’t it? Perl 5.14 and Unicode 6.0 come to the aid of the e‐emotionally challenged: % unifmt -22 < emotica 😢 😔 😐 🌟 🐲 😽 👲 🗽 🐷 😚 😃 👿 💀 🌞 ⚇ 🙅 👶 👰 👵 🎭 ☺ 🐺 ☤ 👺 😱 👀 😌 😉 😳 👯 🌜 🐶 👨 😰 😞 👽 😂 😜 😪 😶 😁 ☃ ☻ 😾 🐸 👷 😡 ⚉ 😘 💩 👴 😣 🐻 🐮 👳 🐹 😻 😍 😏 🐴 🌝 😒 𐈿 🐪 🎅 🐾 ☹ 🐭 💃 👼 😥 😠 😩 ⚜ 😖 👦 😵 🐼 😝 🌛 👱 👩 🐯 😭 👮 💆 😆 😅 😤 😺 😼 🐰 👸 👾 😊 ⚛ 😫 😲 👻 😋 😈 👹 🐧 😇 😸 😎 😨 😓 😹 👧 😷 🌚 🎃 ⚚ 🐵 🙀 👅 🙆 🐱 😄 〠 Those aren’t just emotica: they’re emotiquísima! With 11 rows of 11 of them, may you never again lack the right emoticon. 😋 What are you using to type? I see you have U+2010 HYPHEN instead of the ASCII hyphin-minus character. Why, my fingers, of course! What are you using to type? 😜	[reply]
Re^8: 'use' inside or outside of package declaration? by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on May 13, 2011 at 01:50 UTC
I mean, how are you entering the text? The standard monks entry form doesn't do any smart-quotes or typographical character substitution. If I touch-type I get the plain ASCII hyphen-minus. I have a supplementary keypad with more interesting characters, so I can type “don’t” but I'm finding it too much trouble compared to touch typing at full speed on the regular keyboard, so I probably won’t use it much for every old contraction. BTW, “‐” isn't in the Gentium Basic font, so Firefox finds one somewhere that don't match. I definitely use — and – all the time, but never found the need to use ‐ instead of - for good typesetting appearance. ☃	[reply]
Re^9: 'use' inside or outside of package declaration? by tchrist (Pilgrim) on May 13, 2011 at 02:40 UTC
I have magical elves to do all my typing for me. 👳 I have to type in ⅵ or I go crazy. 😭 And sometimes I run 🐪 scripts to ﬁx things. I ﬁnd having to type in HTML to be prehistoric (StackOverflow’s system is just about inﬁnitely better), so I of course have 🐪 help me: kind of a home‐rolled pod2monk. 😇 The four ‘curly’ “quotes” have easy keyboard shortcuts. I don’t have keyboard shortcuts for the two hyphens (`HYPHEN` ‹‐› and `NON-BREAKING HYPHEN` ‹‑›), though, just for the two dashes (`EM` ‹–› & `EN` ‹—›). I do use all four pretty selectively, and a proper `MINUS` ‹−› every now and then. I avoid `HYPHEN-MINUS` ‹-› and `APOSTROPHE` ‹'› except in code; the others always look much better. 👀 I should make pod2monk smarter so I wouldn’t have to resort to such complicated 🎹 chords. 😒 Yeah, it slows down the touch‐typing efficiency a bit, but not so much as to make it not worth the bother to have it look good. 💩 I use Opera on a 🍏 or 👿 (but not 🐧), so don’t really know anything about 👽 setups. I’m looking at everything in a nice Georgia font. I can’t imagine using a font without a `HYPHEN`; it’s a fundmental requirement of typesetting. Are you sure you don’t have one? 😲	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^10: 'use' inside or outside of package declaration? by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on May 13, 2011 at 03:09 UTC