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Re:Kazakhstan Cheers New Alphabet, Except for All Those Apos... by cesarb on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @08:47AM (#16158083)
> I've seen it in practice how a friend tried to learn programming with his US ANSI keyboard, by copy-pasting those characters when needed.

Couldn't your friend use trigraphs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digraphs_and_trigraphs) in place of these characters?

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Re:Kazakhstan Cheers New Alphabet, Except for All Those Apos... by tlholaday on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @09:31AM (#16158389)
Note that C and C++ digraphs and trigraphs require < and > as part of the `token`.
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