trigraphs in X3J11

[Richard A. O'Keefe]

In article <10949 at apple.Apple.Com>, lenoil at Apple.COM (Robert Lenoil) writes:
> Instead of introducing a totally new notion
> (to C, anyway) of trigraphs, why not simply extend the backslash escape
> mechanism to be valid outside of strings?

Because backslash itself is one of the missing characters.
(This is all fixed in the ISO 8859 character set family anyway.)