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The wrong values are from PDF files. Maybe you mean using a system-wide ASCII-only font but you finished your point with “should not be present in source code”.
by keybored 2y ago
The wrong values are from PDF files. Maybe you mean using a system-wide ASCII-only font but you finished your point with “should not be present in source code”. Source code wasn’t the problem here.
- foobarchu 2y agoIt very much is a problem in source code too though. It's unfortunately common in college courses (particularly non-CS courses with programming like bioinformatics) for instructors to distribute sample code as word docs. Cue students who can't run the code and don't know why because Word helpfully converted all double quotes to a "prettier" Unicode equivalent.
- keybored 2y agoBizarrely I have experienced the same thing from Latex with its purpose-made code/literal blocks. But the most shocking thing are printed learning resources on things like Haskell where the code examples on purpose are some kind of typographic printout rather than just the symbols themselves!