TIL about the greek question mark

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

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  • Kalash@feddit.ch
    56·
    1 year ago

    I just tried and it just turns into a proper semicolon and everything works. (Sublime Text).

    That might explain that:

    In Unicode, it is separately encoded as U+037E ; GREEK QUESTION MARK, but the similarity is so great that the code point is normalised to U+003B ; SEMICOLON, making the marks identical in practice.