Hi all,

I live in Italy and on my keyboard the backtick is very difficult to render (I think for French and Germany guys is the same).

On bash the backtick can be replaced using $(expr)

Is it possible to use another char instead of the backtick for Uri literlas, in Fantom?

Thanks!

Hi daitangio,

I understand and sympathize that it isn't ideal. We had a really long discussion on this topic several years ago to debate the issue, and finally concluded that it was best to leave it alone since that char was used in other programming languages like Bash, Python, and Ruby. See topic 722.

So far so good. For the emacs guy out of there with the lucky of an italian keyboard these two lines

(global-set-key (kbd "°") (kbd "`"))
(global-set-key (kbd "§") (kbd "~"))

found here http://marcobenini.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/italian-keyboards-and-emacs/ will solve the issue.

Anyway I will suggest a fallback combo for the new version of the language.

For instance in Pascal,

{ 

can be also written

(*

and

} 

as

*)