Comments on: Another use for const_missing - generating unicode characters in strings http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/06/05/another-use-for-const_missing-generating-unicode-characters-in-strings/ Ruby makes Rails, Javascript makes Ajax, Dr Nic makes Magic Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:47:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Dr Nic http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/06/05/another-use-for-const_missing-generating-unicode-characters-in-strings/#comment-30527 Dr Nic Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:06:35 +0000 http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/06/05/another-use-for-const_missing-generating-unicode-characters-in-strings/#comment-30527 @robby - ah ok I understand where you're coming from. Now I also realise that I don't like ( TM ) either! Perhaps TM* or TM# instead. I'll talk to W3C about fixing that... ;) @robby - ah ok I understand where you’re coming from. Now I also realise that I don’t like ( TM ) either! Perhaps TM* or TM# instead. I’ll talk to W3C about fixing that… ;)

]]> By: Paul Battley http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/06/05/another-use-for-const_missing-generating-unicode-characters-in-strings/#comment-30503 Paul Battley Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:58:55 +0000 http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/06/05/another-use-for-const_missing-generating-unicode-characters-in-strings/#comment-30503 That's not 'Death Miffy' - it's Borg Kitty! (You're right about needing 'require "rubygems"'; I didn't need it because I have 'RUBYOPT=rubygems' in my environment variables, but I expect that most people don't.) That’s not ‘Death Miffy’ - it’s Borg Kitty!

(You’re right about needing ‘require “rubygems”‘; I didn’t need it because I have ‘RUBYOPT=rubygems’ in my environment variables, but I expect that most people don’t.)

]]> By: Robby Russell http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/06/05/another-use-for-const_missing-generating-unicode-characters-in-strings/#comment-30496 Robby Russell Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:50:10 +0000 http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/06/05/another-use-for-const_missing-generating-unicode-characters-in-strings/#comment-30496 sans the extra parens... argh. :-p sans the extra parens… argh. :-p

]]> By: Robby Russell http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/06/05/another-use-for-const_missing-generating-unicode-characters-in-strings/#comment-30495 Robby Russell Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:49:51 +0000 http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/06/05/another-use-for-const_missing-generating-unicode-characters-in-strings/#comment-30495 Ah, your blog renders textile.. ;-) ((tm)) => (tm) Ah, your blog renders textile.. ;-)

((tm)) => ™

]]> By: Robby Russell http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/06/05/another-use-for-const_missing-generating-unicode-characters-in-strings/#comment-30493 Robby Russell Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:49:23 +0000 http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/06/05/another-use-for-const_missing-generating-unicode-characters-in-strings/#comment-30493 @dr nic, It's based on the convention that Textile already has. For example, (tm)creates a trademark symbol and we wanted to keep it consistent with new characters. In a nutshell, we extended the Textile process with another 80 characters/symbols. @dr nic,

It’s based on the convention that Textile already has. For example, ™creates a trademark symbol and we wanted to keep it consistent with new characters. In a nutshell, we extended the Textile process with another 80 characters/symbols.

]]> By: Dr Nic http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/06/05/another-use-for-const_missing-generating-unicode-characters-in-strings/#comment-30461 Dr Nic Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:17:27 +0000 http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/06/05/another-use-for-const_missing-generating-unicode-characters-in-strings/#comment-30461 @paul - your "death miffy" gravatar is disturbing. I don't think I'll be able to look at my son's miffy doll the same way again... :) @paul - your “death miffy” gravatar is disturbing. I don’t think I’ll be able to look at my son’s miffy doll the same way again… :)

]]> By: Dr Nic http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/06/05/another-use-for-const_missing-generating-unicode-characters-in-strings/#comment-30459 Dr Nic Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:16:20 +0000 http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/06/05/another-use-for-const_missing-generating-unicode-characters-in-strings/#comment-30459 @paul - thx; example updated. (NOTE: need to require 'rubygems' to access the gem now we're not in the comfortable world of Rails console) @robby - that's nice. I'm not sure if I like the surrounding parentheses, personally, because I often forget that I want a variation of u, for example, and I'd need to press the back arrow to put the bracket in, then forwards again etc. But I assume (u~) is easier to parse, than u~. @paul - thx; example updated. (NOTE: need to require ‘rubygems’ to access the gem now we’re not in the comfortable world of Rails console)

@robby - that’s nice. I’m not sure if I like the surrounding parentheses, personally, because I often forget that I want a variation of u, for example, and I’d need to press the back arrow to put the bracket in, then forwards again etc. But I assume (u~) is easier to parse, than u~.

]]> By: Robby Russell http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/06/05/another-use-for-const_missing-generating-unicode-characters-in-strings/#comment-30454 Robby Russell Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:08:22 +0000 http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/06/05/another-use-for-const_missing-generating-unicode-characters-in-strings/#comment-30454 This reminds me of something that I worked on recently for one of our clients that deals with publishing. Their editors aren't going to want to remember all the unicode characters and we're also using textile, so we created a library that converts things like so: (u`) (u~) for about eighty characters. To take it a step further, as they start to type in their edit panels, it provides a help menu of available options. Hoping that we'll be able to demo some of that stuff soon. :-) This reminds me of something that I worked on recently for one of our clients that deals with publishing. Their editors aren’t going to want to remember all the unicode characters and we’re also using textile, so we created a library that converts things like so:

(u`) (u~) for about eighty characters. To take it a step further, as they start to type in their edit panels, it provides a help menu of available options. Hoping that we’ll be able to demo some of that stuff soon. :-)

]]> By: Paul Battley http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/06/05/another-use-for-const_missing-generating-unicode-characters-in-strings/#comment-30451 Paul Battley Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:03:50 +0000 http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/06/05/another-use-for-const_missing-generating-unicode-characters-in-strings/#comment-30451 Very clever! (The only thing script/console does that's relevant here is to set $KCODE='u', by the way.) Very clever!

(The only thing script/console does that’s relevant here is to set $KCODE=’u', by the way.)

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