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The characters commonly found in programming language syntaxes are a subset of the standard ANSI 101 keyboard layout. It makes them easy to type. It is however
by nothrabannosir 8y ago
The characters commonly found in programming language syntaxes are a subset of the standard ANSI 101 keyboard layout. It makes them easy to type.
It is however, especially today, a completely separate issue from encoding. Having more characters in ASCII won’t make a dent without having them on most keyboards, and having them on a keyboard is enough to encourage adoption without having them in the ascii code plane.