Ha!  There's a perfect example of what I mean... 
 
To those who are reading this in "plain text" I apologize for the markup codes, but it looks like they are "necessary" at this point.
 
Well, I'll try this again, in HTML and see if they go through...  ∴∈⊆⊂⊃∧∨∏∑∫√∝∞∠≈≠≤≡≥
 
Not sure what went through, but I see what came back on this end.  All of the characters I was talking about have been converted to question marks!
 
Oh, and in case they do...  "≡" is the one I was talking about as an alternative for the "is" operator.  Would be nice to allow it... but there is a question of whether or not it would get used, and a question of whether or not it may be lost when the source core is saved or sent or in some other way transfered from it's original location.
 
TZ
 
"TechnoZeus" <TechnoZeus@PeoplePC.com> wrote in message news:d3od0n$b7o$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> It's too bad most keyboards don't have keys for symbols like ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, and ?.  It's interesting that Japanese can be typed in Hiragana, Katakana, or Romanji characters, and yet we can't find a way to include such useful characters as these in a programming language.  No insult to anyone intended here, by the way.  No one person is responsable for this situation.  It just is.
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> Wouldn't it be nice though, if "?" could be used as an alternative to the "is" operator for identity, at the very least?  But... I for one can say that I've tried to type such things in Notepad and it simply wouldn't let me, no matter how I went about it... and Notepad is still what I am typing most of my D source code in.
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