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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: trigraphs?
From:       Guillaume Laurent <glaurent () telegraph-road ! org>
Date:       2001-04-17 23:16:53
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On Wednesday 18 April 2001 01:05, Frerich Raabe wrote:

> I think three special characters in a row are called a trigraph, i.e. ::~
> or something. Cannot remember really, though.

As others already said, trigraphs are an old way to represent characters like 
'[' or '|' etc... in C and C++ as sequences of three characters. This was 
used by people who didn't have these characters on their keyboards.

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					Guillaume.
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