Actual angle brackets look like this: 〈〉 A bracket should visually surround the text it's containing, otherwise it looks confusing. The less-than and greater-th

Actual angle brackets look like this: 〈〉 A bracket should visually surround the text it's containing, otherwise it looks confusing. The less-than and greater-than signs are only used due to ASCII limitations, though I'm wondering why they didn't go for square brackets, which are available in ASCII.