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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: trigraphs?
From:       Jason Stephenson <panda () mis ! net>
Date:       2001-04-18 1:27:59
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On Tuesday 17 April 2001 19:16, Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> 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.

It's also recommended to avoid using them, as they are not good for compiler 
portability. They're also unnecessary on modern systems.
 
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