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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? Apple Ⅱ+
by codetrotter 1y 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?
Apple Ⅱ+
- lejoko 1y agoBecause Apple itself wrote it with square brackets.
- codetrotter 1y agoBut 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.
- samf 1y agoIn my case I stick with ][ for the sake of nostalgia.
- helpfulContrib 1y ago[dead]
- goosedragons 1y agoYes, they did. It's written that way in early marketing material and documentation.
- mattgrice 1y agoI don't know what the confusion could be. That's the name of the product. It's '][' because that's a creative way to write 'II' which is a fun way of writing '2.' Just like the Apple //c