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On Sat, 28 Sep 2024 15:17:12 -0700, Lars Poulsen wrote:

> I was late to discovering C. In the 1970's I lived in Denmark, and our
> terminals, printers, keyboards etc were using a national version of the
> ISO standard interchange code that Americans kn ow as ASCII.
> Since Danish have three unique (well sort-of shared with Swedish and
> Norvegian) vowels at the end of the alphabet (æ ø å / Æ Ø Å), these were
> allocated at the end of the alphabet - after z / Z. When you look at the
> ASCII character table, you will see that each of these conflicts with
> significant symbols of the C language ({ \ } / [ | ]). This created a
> strong disincentive to experiment with a "fringe" programming language.

Don't feel bad. I always forget what the Apple II lacked, maybe the tilde, 
but even with a Z-80 SoftCard you had to do some tweaks to write C code.