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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/programmer_humor

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In Unicode, it is separately encoded as U+037E ; GREEK QUESTION MARK, but the similarity is so great that the code point is normalised to U+003B ; SEMICOLON, making the marks identical in practice.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_mark

I'm still curious whether it would be accepted by the code interpreters / compilers of various languages. I'm not bold enough to assume they all normalise properly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Wow, thank you, didn't know of that.