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Re:If PHP Were British by abhaga on Saturday August 20, 2011 @01:49PM (#2907184)
> Let's say, for example, it actually had been started with variables using a £ rather than $, would it have made any difference at all?

I cannot see £ sign on my keyboard, so that would be slightly inconvenient. :)

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Re:If PHP Were British by gmac on Saturday August 20, 2011 @02:19PM (#2907279)
Indeed, nor is it in ASCII. So it might at least have encouraged attention to be paid to character encoding issues a decade or so earlier!
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Re:If PHP Were British by Someone on Sunday August 21, 2011 @02:23PM (#2909793)
Who cares about ASCII (American standard code for…) in a British product? This, of course, would use BS-4730 (BS = British Standards Institute.) it has £ where ASCII has #.
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Re:If PHP Were British by willyt on Saturday August 20, 2011 @03:32PM (#2907465)
There's no # on mac British keyboards! You have to hit option-4 (did I get that right, don't have a keyboard in front if me) to e.g. comment ruby code...
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Re:If PHP Were British by JimDabell on Sunday August 21, 2011 @05:23AM (#2908830)
It's ⎇-3, not 4. ⎇-4 is ¢.
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Re:If PHP Were British by andyking on Saturday August 20, 2011 @03:58PM (#2907555)
It is option-4. But I almost went and bought a new keyboard before I discovered that.
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