[Scilab-users] New constant %chars to get sets of symbols

[Antoine Monmayrant]

On 29/12/2020 16:39, Samuel Gougeon wrote:
> As well, i must confess that having a ALT+X or any other keys shortcut 
> able to convert a series of 2 to 4 input unicodes to the corresponding 
> character -- as proposed in wish #16505 -- would be of almost no help 
> to me, because i do not remember unicodes of any non-ascii characters. 
> Who does? Such a ALT-X shortcut is used for instance in the -- yet 
> great -- /Inskscape/ free drawing software. Then, each time that a 
> greek letter or another symbol must be used, we need to find its 
> unicodes in an extra document (most often on internet). It's 
> definitely not handy.
I agree with you here.
It is not a good idea to use such a shortcut that replicates what is 
already present at the OS level: on linux for example Crtl+Alt+Maj+u 
allows to type the unicode of a character (like 3BB for λ). Equivalent 
shortcuts exist under Windows and MacOS.

 From my personal experience, my preferred implementation is the one 
used by Julia: type the LaTeX macro (like \lambda for λ) then Tab and 
you get the unicode character.
I assume implementation something like that in Scilab is quite a lot of 
work...

Your proposition might be a good compromise between ease of 
implementation and usefulness.


Cheers,

Antoine

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