Fwiw, § is ASCII code 167, the "Section symbol". Long been used as a record separator and section marker.
I agree the keyboard thing is really annoying. Maybe the West should investigate the efforts China has put into different typing systems.
Fwiw, § is ASCII code 167, the "Section symbol". Long been used as a record separator and section marker.
I agree the keyboard thing is really annoying. Maybe the West should investigate the efforts China has put into different typing systems.
That's not correct. ASCII has only 128 codepoints and its maximum value is 127 or 0x7F. Code 167 is not part of ASCII. You're probably thinking of ISO 8859-1.
U+00A7 (codepoint 167) is also the Unicode codepoint for §. Its use on this very web page is via Unicode and the UTF-8 encoding as the bytes \xC2\xA7.
(This is meant as a narrow correction. It doesn't really change the broader point that § is not exactly easy to type on most keyboards. Whether its ASCII or not.)
Sorry, you're right. I guess I meant 8859-1 as opposed to Windows codepages or Unicode-exclusive. My Western bias is showing as I don't know if there are old locales that wouldn't have it that would affect any international users, but I assume not?
FWIW, on some MacBook Pro keyboards, the § is right next to 1:
https://keyshorts.com/blogs/blog/37615873-how-to-identify-ma...