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? My problem is not with Unicode here. Unicode has angle-brackets. But SGML (which tbf predates Unicode by a lot) doesn't use them.... It uses less-than/grea
by nfoz 6y ago
? My problem is not with Unicode here. Unicode has angle-brackets. But SGML (which tbf predates Unicode by a lot) doesn't use them.... It uses less-than/greater-than signs and pretends that they're angle-brackets. They're not. Consequently, HTML <tags> are typographically incorrect and look horrible.
It's made even worse by "programmer fonts" that make the glyphs for less-than/greater-than look like angle-brackets, which is just wrong; now there's no way to write the comparators.
I guess we all just wish that ASCII (and/or keyboards) had one or two more pairs of brackets.
- _-___________-_ 6y agoOne could argue that because of the widespread use of < and > in HTML, those characters have gained an alternate meaning as brackets. Saying they're NOT BRACKETS is a bit like saying "selfie" is not a word. Just as language changes over time, glyphs can gain alternate meanings through usage.
- jodrellblank 6y ago> “I guess we all just wish that ASCII (and/or keyboards) had one or two more pairs of brackets” Imagine pressing < (SHIFT+.) in an editor and getting a pop up autocomplete listbox of a dozen bracket pair combinations.