Unicode characters in mathed

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Sat, Apr 01, 2023 at 09:13:22PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> Le 01/04/2023 à 20:57, Scott Kostyshak a écrit :
> > On Sat, Apr 01, 2023 at 03:09:58PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> > Would another possibility be to prompt the user? I'm not sure what a friendly prompt would be though since many LyX users do not know what unicode is. I could try to work on some user-friendly text if we think a prompt would be reasonable. A prompt would be my ideal behavior though since I often paste unicode by mistake. This type of thing hits me from time to time, not with symbols that are obviously non-ascii like ≠ but more with double-quotes or things like that that I forget are often non-ascii.
> 
> Thanks for your thoughts. Does this quote thing apply to mathed too, or
> rather text ?

Indeed I was thinking of text.

> > If we do preserve the unicode ≠, I would personally prefer to have some sort of signal that it is unicode in the LyX display. Actually, that's how I have my text editor set up (see screenshot).
> 
> But what is unicode? Only things over 0xFF?

No idea :)

Scott
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