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A comment on ASCII and Unicode quotation marks. Parent comment

Re:ASCII and Unicode quotation marks by agumonkey on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @05:06PM (#15242684)
let's rewrite social idioms to use < > as quotes.
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Re:ASCII and Unicode quotation marks by Symbiote on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @05:18PM (#15242788)
«These characters» are the usual way of quoting in several languages.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillemet

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Re:ASCII and Unicode quotation marks by Pxtl on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @09:40PM (#15244373)
Well then it's a good thing c used its ASCII equivalent that's accessible on anglophone keyboards for bit shifting and so if any programming language tried to use <<strings>> you'd have c grognards screaming about lshift and rshift.
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