How to print unicode characters (no library)?
H. S. Teoh
hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx
Sun Dec 26 23:57:47 UTC 2021
On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 11:45:25PM +0000, max haughton via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
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> I think that mental model is pretty good actually. Maybe a more
> specific idea exists, but this virtual machine concept does actually
> explain to the new programmer to expect dragons - or at least that the
> days of plain ASCII are long gone (and never happened, e.g. backspace
> as you say)
In some Unix terminals, backspace + '_' causes a character to be
underlined. So it's really a mini VM, not just pure data. So yeah, the
good ole ASCII days never happened. :-D
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