> They'd only be useful on systems that don't support Unicode in source > files, the way digraphs and trigraphs are only useful if you have a > broken keyboard without braces. But they're part of the spec, add > maybe 20 lines of code, and don't slow anything down unless they're > used. Maybe in the Unix port of kencc they'll be wanted.
one problem. kenc runs on plan 9. plan 9 supports unicode. have you ever used a di/trigraph? reading one in the spec does not count. - erik
