Well, it is included in the extended
ASCII table
I looked through my table of IBM
Extended ASCII, and didn't find it. Decimal 187
is one of the framing characters (for drawing
character-based screen windows and stuff),
specifically the double-line upper-right-corner.
(I used to use the framing characters all the time,
mostly in comments and documentation, but also for
character-based window borders and things, back in
the DOS days.)
I've never seen this double-greater-than-sign
character before in my life, as far as I know.
Hopefully I won't need parallel dispatch for
very much, because I really like my Avant Stellar
keyboard and have no intentions of switching to a
European keyboard or whatever is needed to type
unicode characters.
I don't mind if the language _supports_ unicode;
I think it's wrong to *require* it though.
;$;=sub{$/};@;=map{my($a,$b)=($_,$;);$;=sub{$a.$b->()}}
split//,".rekcah lreP rehtona tsuJ";$\=$;[-1]->();print
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Take a look at characters 174 («) and 175 (») in the (an?) extended ASCII table and they should be there.
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Take a look at characters 174 and
175
I will when I get home. (The chart is an appendix in
my ITT Advanced Basic manual...) But I no longer use
DOS as my primary operating system, and the system I
do use now does not support IBM Extended ASCII as
far as I am aware, nor does it provide a mechanism
for typing characters above decimal 126 or below
decimal 32. Holding alt while typing on the
keypad does application-dependent things;
in Mozilla, it seems to have something to do with
bookmarks or the history.
Update: Oh, is that what those are? Sure enough,
I guess. They look rather different on my chart
(rather more vertically stretched), but that's
basically just a font difference. Still, as I said,
I don't have any way AFAIK to type in these characters
in my current operating environment. Here's hoping
that >> will work.
;$;=sub{$/};@;=map{my($a,$b)=($_,$;);$;=sub{$a.$b->()}}
split//,".rekcah lreP rehtona tsuJ";$\=$;[-1]->();print
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Well, it is included in the extended ASCII table
The problem is that it's "an" extended ASCII table - not "the" extended ASCII table :-) There are many extensions of ASCII, many of which do not have "»" and "«".
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