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Interesting. It says they're the same thing, but then the two characters listed on the page (the regular backslash and the Unicode variant) are rendered noticea
by chimeracoder 13y ago
Interesting. It says they're the same thing, but then the two characters listed on the page (the regular backslash and the Unicode variant) are rendered noticeably differently.
I can't imagine why they changed the name, given that the forward slash and the solidus are not interchangeable. http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/5c/index.htm http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/5c/index.htm
- nknighthb 13y agoLook at the HTML. The "unicode variant" is rendered differently because the code tells the browser to render it differently, not because it's a different character. <span style="font-size:125%"><span class="Unicode">\</span></span>
- chimeracoder 13y agoAh, thanks. I was on my phone and didn't think to check the source. EDIT: Actually, this explanation is enlightening: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_(punctuation)#Encoding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_(punctuation)#Encoding