Try it - it will be replaced with ≠ upon compiling.
I have tried it, I get syntax error.
Ok I see. I tried in it Script Debugger so I guess it’s an SD feature. Script Editor doesn’t accept != at all.
What does “corrupt” mean?
Are you talking about text encoding ? Script Editor, for example, usually saves text files using Mac Roman encoding. If this is then opened using Latin-1 (another common 8-bit character encoding), a line continuation character (¬) will appear as Â, and an inequality sign (≠) may not be visible.
You can use /= in place of ≠. Script Editor will make the substitution automatically when compiled, but it is fine to use when saving as plain text.