unicode macro support

[hillam]

I'm a big fan of ¯\(ツ)/¯ (as well as many others)

But I get the following error when I try to use this as a macro:

Alt codes are certainly better than nothing, but it would be great it we could use unicode characters in macros. I've looked through macroparse.py a bit and this seems like it might be within the realm of possibility.

[dhowland]

It would be great, yes.

In the beginning, EasyAVR was created by me for me. Being a typical American, I just didn't give a single thought to internationalization, and Unicode just wasn't on my radar. Also I started on Python 2.7 so all strings were ASCII.

I don't have time to implement this. I will be moving to Python 3.6 this year and deprecating 2.7 support, so we could count on Unicode strings being the default. So, an implementation is possible. If you can take a crack at it, please do so.

What I would probably do is insert a Unicode translation layer into the current code. It could try and examine each character and, if not in UTF-8, try and translate it to an ALT code. It's not trivial but it should be possible.