Am 18.08.2012 00:39, schrieb Cousin Ricky:
> clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>> Am 17.08.2012 19:53, schrieb Dave:
>>>     renderfrontend.cpp:1165:57: warning: trigraph ??) ignored, use
>>> -trigraphs to enable [-Wtrigraphs]
>>
>> Trigraphs suck, but yes, we should avoid them.
>
> Hard to believe there was a time when not all English-based computers understood
> 7-bit ASCII.

Well, the trigraphs were there for /non/ English-based computers, which 
often used 7-bit national derivatives of ASCII. Those typically replaced 
a common set of 8 characters - curly braces, square brackets, pipe 
symbol, backslash, tilde and hash - with language-specific characters 
(in the German "GSCII", for instance, those were the umlauts, the sz 
ligature, and the German paragraph sign), so C programs without 
trigraphs would look pretty odd on those computers.

BTW, the UK also had their own derivative of ASCII, replacing the hash 
sign with a pound sterling sign, but AFAIR the other characters were 
left unharmed.

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