> Because of IRC's scandanavian origin, the characters {}| are considered to be the lower case equivalents of the characters []\, respectively

/me facepalms

Text rendering hates you (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36478892 - June, 2023 (119 comments)

et al, as there was a follow-up posted in the top comment of that thread

I thought there was an "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Text" but between that link and <https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood#international...> it's close enough for the point