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Re:JEP 430: String Templates (Preview) Proposed to Target Ja... by qw on Saturday March 04, 2023 @09:20AM (#35020911)
It's a standard full sized Mac keyboard for Norway. We share the keyboard with Denmark too I think. The Swedes and Finns have different keyboards, but I think they use a similar combination for backslash.

So the Mac issue applies to 4 countries in the Nordics at least. Please note that traditional PC keyboards use a different layout for some characters and may in some cases have a dedicated key for backslash too.

Regarding backslashes and other special characters, I never said it's on Java specifically, but the US centric culture in general. K&R used curly brackets when they designed Cbecause they fit the US teletype character set of the 60s/70s, but that doesn't mean it's the best choice today.

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Re:JEP 430: String Templates (Preview) Proposed to Target Ja... by v-erne on Saturday March 04, 2023 @12:59PM (#35022896)
Yeah, I agree that it would be nice to have option that works for all and takes all National quirks under consideration.

Do You have some specific way of template definition in mind that You think would work here?

And what about curly brackets, especially in context of templates, what would you use instead?

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