Environment for Perl6 Unicode

rir has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

After a long forced break, I'm starting back up with Perl6 Rakudo.

I have stumbled into very minor character/grapheme issues as ASCII has fallen from its high station, but as a user not as a programmer. The occasional domino or html code has usually been understandable in context.

So I'm ill prepared to set up my Perl6 predominantly on Xterms and Gnome Terms 2.30.2 on i386 Debian 6 (squeeze), sometimes on virtual terminals, usually in Vim.

How do I set up my system so I can type&view those characters, like the one piece "<<"? For more context, my computer use follows a monolingual American pattern.

Be well,
rir

Perl6--less like line noise, but with extra crunchy characters.

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Re: Environment for Perl6 Unicode by tobyink (Canon) on Feb 07, 2013 at 16:08 UTC
Gnome Terminal is certainly Unicode-aware. What you probably want to do to make it easier to type characters not on your keyboard is to set up a compose key. That is, you sacrifice one of your keys to be used to compose interesting characters. (Personally I use Caps Lock for this purpose, as I find I never use Caps Lock for typing capitals.) Once you have a compose key set up, you just hit Compose, then "<", then "<", and you get "«". Or hit Compose, then "a", then "^", and you get "ā". There are all kinds of useful characters you can type with a compose key. `package Cow { use Moo; has name => (is => 'lazy', default => sub { 'Mooington' }) } say Cow->new->name`	[reply]
Re^2: Environment for Perl6 Unicode by daxim (Curate) on Feb 14, 2013 at 10:03 UTC
I'm a big fan of the XCompose feature, too. I find that most instructions how to map the key to e.g. Capslock, while working, are much too complicated - the keyboard applets in the control panels of good desktop environments offer this as a simple setting (screenshot). That list is out of date - instead see `file:///usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose` or http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/tree/nls/en_US.UTF-8/Compose.pre. See https://github.com/kragen/xcompose how to make user-defined additions.	[reply]
Re: Environment for Perl6 Unicode by daxim (Curate) on Feb 07, 2013 at 15:55 UTC
How do I set up my system so I can type&view those characters Congratulations, you are lucky, this is 2013, and it already is set up. However, if find that you have – against expectations – trouble with something, describe the problem in detail so that the trouble can be shot. Update: Select from the keyboard applet "English (US, international with dead keys)". Type AltGr + [ for «, type AltGr + ] for ».	[reply]
Re: Environment for Perl6 Unicode by Anonymous Monk on Feb 07, 2013 at 15:18 UTC
unicode font + perlrun#-CSD + export LANG=en_US.UTF-8	[reply]
Re: Environment for Perl6 Unicode by rir (Vicar) on Feb 08, 2013 at 17:12 UTC
For keyboarding « and » in vim, I've added four maps: `imap <expr> << "\uAB" imap <expr> >> "\uBB" imap <expr> <F5> "\uAB" imap <expr> <F6> "\uBB"` [download] I suspect I'll like the first pair of maps more. F-keys are just so far away. For the rest, hopefully, daxim is right and malformed text is coming to me from the web. Be well, rir	[reply] [d/l]

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