Time we switched to unicode? (was Explanation of this Python language feature?)

[Roy Smith]

In article <lgquvt$b7t$1 at speranza.aioe.org>,
 Mark H Harris <harrismh777 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3/24/14 10:51 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > Supporting both may look tempting, but you effectively create two ways
> > of spelling the exact same thing; it'd be like C's trigraphs. Do you
> > know what ??= is,
> 
> This was a fit for me, back in the day IBM (system36 & system38). When 
> we started supporting the C compiler (ha!) and non of our 5250 terminals 
> could provide the C punctuation we take for granted today--- so we 
> invented tri-graphs for { and } and others. It was a hoot.

Our ASR-33s didn't have { and }, so we used \( and \).  To be honest, I 
don't remember if the c compiler understood those, or if it was mapped 
at the tty driver level.