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codetrotter | 9 months ago

One thing, off topic kinda, that I always wonder when I see mention of said computer.

Why people don’t use the Unicode symbol for Roman numeral two?

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lejoko|9 months ago

Because Apple itself wrote it with square brackets.

codetrotter|9 months ago

But did they actually mean literally to use ][ as square brackets. Or is it merely an approximation that is meant to be read as Roman numeral two. And then people in that time writing it as ][ because Unicode didn't even exist yet. And then people stuck with that.