Re: Summary of state of utf-8 supported terminals

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

On 07/03/2015 04:01 PM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> I made the following substitutions to achieve the intended text:
>
> #  =>   \#
> $  =>   \$
> %  =>   \%
> &   =>   \&
> <   =>   \textless
>>   =>   \textgreater
> \  =>   \textbackslash
> ^  =>   \^
> _  =>   \_
>
> One question is should such translations be added to the latex terminal
> when requesting a text string?  We could make it an option to the latex
> terminal, e.g., "textsubstitute".  An alternative is to use one of the
> LaTeX verbatim constructs but that risks the user typing in the exit
> character from verbatim, causing more confusion.

The problem with the above idea is that one can no longer enter LaTeX 
command words.  Actually, when one thinks about it, this concept is 
essentially the same as saying "noenhanced", isn't it?  I mean, LaTeX is 
inherently "enhanced", so an option "noenhanced" making the above 
substitutions would be pretty consistent with other terminals.

Dan