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Re:My last name makes me invisible to Computers (2015) by halfdgvfyjjuc on Friday August 18, 2017 @11:22AM (#15046978)
That character is a backtick not a grave isn't it? Also some cultures use «» as quotes. It's a big world.
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Re:My last name makes me invisible to Computers (2015) by dsp1234 on Friday August 18, 2017 @12:07PM (#15047392)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_accent

"Programmers use the grave accent symbol as a separate character (i.e., not combined with any letter) for a number of tasks. In this role, it is known as a backquote or backtick."

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Re:My last name makes me invisible to Computers (2015) by mark-r on Friday August 18, 2017 @06:59PM (#15050404)
ASCII never really supported the idea of a combining character, so it's not surprising that the original intent was subverted.
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Re:My last name makes me invisible to Computers (2015) by kgwgk on Saturday August 19, 2017 @05:13AM (#15052475)
ASCII supported combining characters. That’s what backspace was for!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11654682

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Re:My last name makes me invisible to Computers (2015) by mark-r on Saturday August 19, 2017 @10:38AM (#15053611)
That was very illuminating, thanks. Interesting that the idea was there originally but was later deprecated when they realized video terminals couldn't do it. Today it would be trivial to convert the sequence letter/backspace/accent to its UTF-8 equivalent.
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Re:My last name makes me invisible to Computers (2015) by ygra on Saturday August 19, 2017 @04:42AM (#15052382)
Heck, in some fonts ` even takes the form of ‛ or ‘. Which is probably where typing quotes like ``this'' comes from (which looks absolutely awful nowadays since it mixes an uncombined diacritic with a kludge of a punctuation character).
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Re:My last name makes me invisible to Computers (2015) by 0xffff2 on Friday August 18, 2017 @11:29AM (#15047046)
Is there a difference? I think those are both words for the same character.
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Re:My last name makes me invisible to Computers (2015) by pc86 on Friday August 18, 2017 @01:02PM (#15047866)
It's a backtick when by itself, grave when it's an accent over another character.
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