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| From | scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: Support of Unicode characters in various places (was Re: c needs this sign) |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| References | (5 earlier) <117rffa$s9ir$6@dont-email.me> <117schh$3r5qn$8@dont-email.me> <117tkl6$1o1jf$1@dont-email.me> <117v6hh$1ls9s$3@dont-email.me> <117v8ut$2bom8$2@kst.eternal-september.org> |
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| Date | 2026-09-10 22:17 +0000 |
Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> writes:
>Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:
>[...]
>> I've yet to hear that anyone actually used trigraphs. - Weren't they,
>> because of that, even removed from recent "C" (or C++) standards?
>
>I've used trigraphs, but only in deliberately obfuscated code. I'm not
>aware of any code that uses trigraphs because they're useful.
>
>Part of the point of trigraphs was to enable the use of C on
>EBCDIC-based systems that don't have all the characters C requires,
>including '{' and '}'. (There are EBCDIC code pages that do have those
>characters, but they're outside the "invariant subset".)
The other part may have been for those still using ASR-33 teletypes
which were missing several characters required in C, including
curly braces, vertical bar, backtick and tilde.
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