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vault on May 2, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Strings Just Got Faster

why is a website about programming not writing code blocks in ASCII? I'm referring to quotes and other undesirable symbols

VWWHFSfQ on May 2, 2025 [–]

Java supports non-ASCII source code since forever. A lot of languages do.

dullcrisp on May 2, 2025 | [–]

But it doesn't support using fancy unicode quotes as string delimiters.

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