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All these new typefaces ... I think it is time for a new keyboard design to make use of those cool Unicode codepages. I see so many symbols that would be great to have in new programming languages but somehow we're stuck with ASCII and I think keyboards are the culprit.

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Julia has made symbol input manageable and lets you define infix operators for many of the Unicode symbols that make sense for that. [1] And JuliaMono was designed to support the symbols that Julia does. [2]

I generally do quite fine with my Compose Key configuration, though (even on Windows, where I use WinCompose). [3]

[1]: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/unicode-input/

[2]: https://juliamono.netlify.app/

[3]: https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose

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