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silentbicycle on Sept 23, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: An intelligent discussion on ligatures for 'wtf' a...

You need to escape the parens: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligature_%28typography%29

(This should be in either the FAQ or the comment formatting notes (http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc), but isn't.)

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