In the representation language both symbols and typographical display features are realized as a set of worthy characters and the newline. Effectively, an Algol 68 program is a sequence of worthy characters and newlines.
Different Algol 68 implementations support different sets of worthy characters. The GNU Algol 68 compiler considers the following characters as worthy characters:
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