TIL about the greek question mark

Tell me, can you tell the difference between these two characters?

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  • qaz
    122•1 year ago

    Every syntax highligher shows this and VSCode even has a special case for this, this is not a real issue.

    • Kalash
      55•1 year ago

      I just tried and it just turns into a proper semicolon and everything works. (Sublime Text).

      That might explain that:

      In Unicode, it is separately encoded as U+037E ; GREEK QUESTION MARK, but the similarity is so great that the code point is normalised to U+003B ; SEMICOLON, making the marks identical in practice.