Last time I looked it up I think I found they are the same characters, and I tried compiling C with a Greek question mark instead of a semi-colon and it compiled fine! But I'm curious if it was because of something else, like my computer's keyboard layout, or the compiler simply being able to handle them 🤔

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 18 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Wait, does C read like valley girl speech in Greek?

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

Shit - the next five weeks I'll read C++ lines in upspeak in my head :(

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 30 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Something somewhere was definitely doing the conversion for you, but it could have been your editor, the compiler or something in between like a C preprocessor directive getting loaded in by your configuration.

[–] 418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I'd be pissed if it was my editor. A compiler used on a global scale would make sense.

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 10 points 6 hours ago

Nah, I would absolutely want my compiler to error out hard on characters that are not allowed per the standard.