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From: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: trigraphs in X3J11
Message-ID: <1014@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 25 May 88 00:20:13 GMT
References: <5215@ico.ISC.COM> <10949@apple.Apple.Com>
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
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In article <10949@apple.Apple.Com>, lenoil@Apple.COM (Robert Lenoil) writes:
> Instead of introducing a totally new notion
> (to C, anyway) of trigraphs, why not simply extend the backslash escape
> mechanism to be valid outside of strings?

Because backslash itself is one of the missing characters.
(This is all fixed in the ISO 8859 character set family anyway.)