Re^7: '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.

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? 😜

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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
So you type in vi and copy the processed results to the input blank? Or do you have further automation to handle that for you? Many installed fonts have character U+2010: Adobe Caslon Pro Adobe Caslon Pro Bold Adobe Fangsong Std R Adobe Garamond Pro Adobe Garamond Pro Bold Adobe Heiti Std R Adobe Kaiti Std R Adobe Myungjo Std M Adobe Song Std L Alba Alba Matter Alba Super Arial Unicode MS Baby Kruffy Balloon Bell Gothic Std Black Bell Gothic Std Light Berlin Sans FB Berlin Sans FB Demi Birch Std Blackoak Std Brush Script Std Calibri Californian FB Cambria Cambria Math Candara Chantilly ChantillyLH Chaparral Pro Charlemagne Std Chick City Code2000 CommercialScript Consolas Constantia Cooper Std Black Corbel Croobie DejaVu Sans DejaVu Sans Condensed DejaVu Sans Light DejaVu Sans Mono DejaVu Serif DejaVu Serif Condensed DFKai-SB Eccentric Std Estrangelo Edessa FangSong Fat Freshbot Frosty Gabriola Gautami Giddyup Std GlooGun HandelGothic High Tower Text Hobo Std hooge 05_53 hooge 05_54 hooge 05_55 Jenkins v2.0 Jokerman Jokewood KaiTi Kozuka Gothic Pro B Kozuka Gothic Pro EL Kozuka Gothic Pro H Kozuka Gothic Pro L Kozuka Gothic Pro M Kozuka Gothic Pro R Kozuka Mincho Pro B Kozuka Mincho Pro EL Kozuka Mincho Pro H Kozuka Mincho Pro L Kozuka Mincho Pro M Kozuka Mincho Pro R Kristen ITC Letter Gothic Std Liberation Sans Narrow Linux Biolinum G Linux Libertine G Lithos Pro Regular Lucida Bright Lucida Sans Lucida Sans Typewriter Lucida Sans Unicode Magneto Meiryo Meiryo UI Mesquite Std Microsoft JhengHei Microsoft PhagsPa Microsoft YaHei MicroSquare MingLiU MingLiU_HKSCS MingLiU_HKSCS-ExtB MingLiU-ExtB Minion Pro Minion Pro Cond Minion Pro Med Minion Pro SmBd MS Gothic MS Mincho MS PGothic MS PMincho MS UI Gothic MVGothicCond MVGothicCondSC MVGothicH MVOldstyle MVOldstyleSC MVSans Myriad Pro Myriad Pro Cond Myriad Pro Light Niagara Engraved Niagara Solid NSimSun Nueva Std Cond OCR A Std OcrA OcrB OnStage OpenSymbol Orator Std Palatino Linotype PMingLiU PMingLiU-ExtB Poornut Poplar Std Porky's Prestige Elite Std Pretoria Pussycat Ravie Rosewood Std Regular Segoe Condensed Segoe UI Segoe UI Symbol Showcard Gothic SimHei SimSun Stencil Std Stop Sylph Symbola Tekton Pro Tekton Pro Cond Tekton Pro Ext TITUS Cyberbit Basic Toxica Trajan Pro Trebuchet MS Vani Weltron Urban Zephyr It's seems that Gentium is simply not one of them. Neither is the copy of Georgia I have installed. A few years ago I started writing a book on electromagnetism for kids and curious nontechnical folks. The early chapter on scientific notation and unit dimensions was driving me nuts, trying to type ×,∙,∕, and thin space all the time. So I got an "Xkeys stick" to put above the function key row. Nice hardware, but the software was utterly useless, and only let me set up macros for keys I could already type just fine! I tried hacking the data tables, and tried using it in plain USB Keyboard mode generating keys that are defined but not present like F20 (and letting a keyboard mapper program take it from there), but nothing worked. So I went to the driver level and made my own trivial program. I have a hobby of fixing em-dashes on Wikipedia.	[reply]