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TIL about the greek question mark ;;;;;;;;;; (lemmy.world)

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

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TIL about the greek question mark

Tell me, can you tell the difference between these two characters?

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[–] [email protected] 121 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Every syntax highligher shows this and VSCode even has a special case for this, this is not a real issue.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago

I just tried and it just turns into a proper semicolon and everything works. (Sublime Text).

That might explain that:

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Can you expect much else from someone who uses JS?