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I don’t think any Greek layout uses a different Unicode codepoint for the question mark. In fact, the classic semicolon is used, so what the meme describes would not happen IRL.

Does all this make it any less funnier? No. It’s brilliant.

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luciferofastora@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_mark

I’m still curious whether it would be accepted by the code interpreters / compilers of various languages. I’m not bold enough to assume they all normalise properly.

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- itsraining@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Wow, thank you, didn’t know of that.
  
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nxfsi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Unicode should have enforced the principle of using the same encoding for similar looking characters like they did with CJK instead of allowing bullshit like the Cyrillic “o” or the Greek question mark.

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- yum13241@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  1,000% percent.
  
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