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Re: new sigil
From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
October 22, 2005 05:27
Subject:
Re: new sigil
Message ID:
20051022122725.GK25158@plum.flirble.org
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 09:42:00AM +0100, Carl Franks wrote:
> Where did you get ALT-155 from?
Code page 437:
http://www.kostis.net/charsets/cp437.htm
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 06:07:47AM -0500, Steve Peters wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 09:42:00AM +0100, Carl Franks wrote:
> > Where did you get ALT-155 from?
> >
> > I've just checked the windows Character Map, and ¢ (cent) is ALT-0162
> > ( If it's not in your startmenu, do start -> run -> charmap )
>
> Actually, both work. That's where the issus with the documentation starts.
"what he says"
This is going to be hard to document well.
For example, *I* know why the leading zero is significant on ALT-0162, but
how many people are going to assume that it's not?
Anyone care to save to a file called AUX.TXT on Windows?
And for anyone who says "upgrade", please note that many firms in the real
world are still forcing a base perl version of 5.005_03 or 5.6.1 for
development. Still.
The active perl "community" is not wholly representitive of the global usage
of perl, and would do well to remember this. For example, see
http://use.perl.org/~barbie/journal/27098
Nicholas Clark