TIL about the greek question mark

Tell me, can you tell the difference between these two characters?

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  • dog
    -1•11 months ago

    Do Rust, Nim, etc use semicolons? I don’t remember

    • LaggyKarEnglish
      11•11 months ago

      Rust does. But you get:

      error: unknown start of token: \u{37e}
 --> test.rs:2:30
  |
2 |     println!("Hello, World!");
  |                              ^
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help: Unicode character ';' (Greek Question Mark) looks like ';' (Semicolon), but it is not
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2 |     println!("Hello, World!");