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TIL about the greek question mark

Tell me, can you tell the difference between these two characters?

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago

I just tried and it just turns into a proper semicolon and everything works. (Sublime Text).

That might explain that:

In Unicode, it is separately encoded as U+037E ; GREEK QUESTION MARK, but the similarity is so great that the code point is normalised to U+003B ; SEMICOLON, making the marks identical in practice.