display _ as left arrow (was Re: Help on sending a UDP Packet)

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It's not by the way that I'm sure I'd really like that feature for GNU 
smalltalk,
if it would exist at all, where a Unicode character would be used for the 
left-arrow.

The idea of GNU Smalltalk is to use a UNIX command-line style environment,
and use "Emacs" (editor) and so on ... it's not about emulating the more 
graphically oriented
development environment of older Smalltalk implementations.

So by default it is logical that GNU smalltalk limits itself to strict ASCII 
characters.

Using '_' is just fine as it currently is :

https://www.gnu.org/software/smalltalk/manual/html_node/Syntax.html

in the footnote it describes '_'.

----- Op 10 jan 2021 om 20:35 schreef stes stes@telenet.be:

> This begs the question (I don't know the answer) whether with Unicode
> characters,
> GNU smalltalk and fonts for a Linux/Unix terminal could be made to print
> up-arrow and left-arrow,
> for GNU smalltalk ...
> 
> Is there a way to do this ?  There are fonts that have those characters, so
> perhaps somebody managed to do this.