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Everything is bigger in Texas... Texas symbols are two or more ascii characters that replace a single Unicode symbol.

• eximius 11y ago
  Herm. That does seem simpler. I should have thought of that. Still, weird name.
  • peteretep 11y ago
    That is the most Perl name (and explanation) I can imagine. For some of us, that's the charm!
• colomon 11y ago
  I've always thought there's also a tongue-in-cheek "Real Americans only use ASCII!!" connotation lurking in there as well.