Closed apblack closed 11 months ago
Perhaps the buttons could be something like ⟦
⤻ [[
and [[
⤻ ⟦
?
Of course, the buttons would perform all six replacements, but the pictographs show the general idea.
Works for me, probably better than ASCII -> Unicode and reverse as novices likely don't know what ASCII or Unicode is.
Although I'm unlikely to convince anyone, the underlying problem is the existence of the digraphs.
How does having to have these buttons help novices?
Although I'm unlikely to convince anyone, the underlying problem is the existence of the digraphs.
Quite right! Let's go back to ICL 1900-series 6-bit bytes. They were good enough for us, so why not for today's learners?
Oops, sorry, wrong issue tracker. That's a language design issue.
This is implemented in commit 4657b4b; the icons are improved (I hope) in commit be810e9.
There is a replace Unicode Utility on the Utilities tab, which replaces the six Unicode characters that have ASCII di-graph equivalents by those ASCII equivalents.
It would be useful to have the inverse utility: replace di-graphs by Unicode. Or, perhaps the single button should be a toggle.
It's tricky to come up with accurate and concise names for the two operations.