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From: faustus@ic.Berkeley.EDU (Wayne A. Christopher)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: trigraphs in X3J11
Message-ID: <3655@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
Date: 26 May 88 08:24:25 GMT
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Nobody has said what the existing practice is with regard to European
character sets.  Do Europeans just use an ascii keyboard when they want
to use C?  Or do they use u-umlaut for backslash (or whatever it is)?
Trigraphs are so ugly I can't believe anybody actually uses them, or
will use them if they're part of C.

I think trigraphs are a trick of American terminal manufacturers who
want to fool Europeans into thinking they can use their terminals for
writing programs.

	Wayne