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SalarC123

What was the original purpose of trigraphs? All the symbols that they represent are on basically all keyboards and are valid Unicode characters

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Animesh

In late 1989, not all keyboards contains these special characters therefore trigraphs were used. Sounds weird, I know but true.

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SalarC123

Wow, I didn’t think about. Thanks

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Nikita S

ioccc.org/ obfuscation championships)