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Andrew Koenig (ark@research.att.com) wrote:

|> In article <4alt1o$13a2@news.ccit.arizona.edu> jychen@aruba.ccit.arizona.edu (Joseph Y Chen) writes:

|> > I have not objection to boolean type.  But those added key words like 
|> > and, or, xor, etc,  just make C/C++ awful, reminding me of Basic which 
|> > has far too many key wods.  I agree that people using C/C++ aren't fools 
|> > and they don't need those added key words.

|> They do if their display devices don't have the usual symbols for &,
|> |, ^, etc.  Those symbols are `national characters' and are permitted
|> to display differently in different countries.

Andy is, of course, talking about the ISO 546 code.  Most modern
machines will use ISO 8859-1, which doesn't have this problem (but has a
number of codes with the 8th bit set, which introduces a set of problems
of its own).

Independantly of the display: using ISO 8859-1 doesn't increase the
number of keys on the keyboard.  It is often difficult, if not
impossible (X-Window doesn't understand the compose key), to enter the
characters in question with a local keyboard.  So even when the codes
exist...
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