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by pjc50 2307 days ago
The terminal can usually handle it, provided it's UTF-8. Most of the editors can handle it. It's very specifically the programming language specifications which don't include them. Even the ones that allow Unicode identifiers.

Also, they're difficult to type - my keyboard has a " key but not a “ or ” character. I had to copy and paste those from the unicode website since I don't have a suitable input method set up.