As can be seen in the photograph of a typical mainframe keyboard:

These users do not have access to curly braces. To welcome contributors also from the realm of mainframe super computing, bitcoin should use some of the lesser known features of C++: Digraphs.
This pull request replaces non-comment and non-string curly braces with their equivalent digraph representations <% and %>. I had to adjust the check-rpc-mappings.py linter a bit as it was not robust enough to deal with the full spectrum of expressivity that C++ offers.
This change should help users using EBCDIC or rather esoteric codepages like DIN_66003.
Unfortunately Trigraphs were removed from C++17, which is why I restrained from replacing symbols in string literals and comments.