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From: Stefan Skoglund <stetson@ebox.tninet.se>
Subject: Re: Why is it Called a Package?
Date: 2000/04/09
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Florian Weimer wrote:
> 
> I think Ada's conservative source character set is due to the fact
> that the full ASCII set is not available in all parts of the world.
> For example, in Germany, a national variant of ISO 646 is still widely
> used[1].  On a ISO 646-DE terminal, "@[]\{}|~" is viewed as
> "��������", for example.
> 
> [1] Given its limitations.  I hope only very few programmers still
> have to maintain source code in this character set, but it appears
> that some large data processing systems still use it, and a lot of
> embedded systems.

The keyboards usually doesn't provide direct access to {}[] and
so on.
For me it is AltGR-( and so on. Shift-( is probably a little better.