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It very much is a problem in source code too though. It's unfortunately common in college courses (particularly non-CS courses with programming like bioinformat
by foobarchu 2y ago
It 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!