[plt-scheme] Writing unicode characters

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> There are platform-specific things that drscheme hooks into. On the
> mac, you can enable various international modes for your keyboard, eg
> for Chinese you can type pinyin or you can use the more sophisticated
> things that real Chinese use when typing.
>
> For certain mathematical characters, you can type the latex macro name
> and then hit alt-\ (on windows) or control-\ (on the mac) and have the
> character turn into the right thing.
>

No trick like this on Linux?

> You can also use the \u notation to type in the code point of a
> unicode character. If you do that in the REPL, drscheme will sometimes
> respond with an actual glyph that you can copy and paste back into the
> program.
>
> Robby
>
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Paulo J. Matos <pocmatos at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Without modifying DrScheme, is there any simple way to input unicode
>> characters? (and if yes, can these characters be used in identifiers?)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> --
>> Paulo Jorge Matos - pocmatos at gmail.com
>> Webpage: http://www.personal.soton.ac.uk/pocm
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