Actually the Greek question mark (;) looks like the Latin semi-colon (;)!
Last time I looked it up I think I found they are the same characters, and I tried compiling C with a Greek question mark instead of a semi-colon and it compiled fine! But I’m curious if it was because of something else, like my computer’s keyboard layout, or the compiler simply being able to handle them 🤔
Something somewhere was definitely doing the conversion for you, but it could have been your editor, the compiler or something in between like a C preprocessor directive getting loaded in by your configuration.
Unicode truly is amazing.
Like that fake apple site that uses the Cyrillic A instead of the Latin A.
Or the Greek question mark being a different code to Latin question marks.
Actually the Greek question mark (
;) looks like the Latin semi-colon (;)!Last time I looked it up I think I found they are the same characters, and I tried compiling C with a Greek question mark instead of a semi-colon and it compiled fine! But I’m curious if it was because of something else, like my computer’s keyboard layout, or the compiler simply being able to handle them 🤔
Wait, does C read like valley girl speech in Greek?
Shit - the next five weeks I’ll read C++ lines in upspeak in my head :(
Something somewhere was definitely doing the conversion for you, but it could have been your editor, the compiler or something in between like a C preprocessor directive getting loaded in by your configuration.
I’d be pissed if it was my editor. A compiler used on a global scale would make sense.
Nah, I would absolutely want my compiler to error out hard on characters that are not allowed per the standard.