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   Message 19,974 of 21,759   
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro to John McCue   
   Re: Unicode 16 Is Out   
   13 Sep 24 22:02:49   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 19:35:29 -0000 (UTC), John McCue wrote:   
      
   > Legacy to me means all these symbols were 7-bit ASCII.   
      
   ASCII was already included in Unicode from the beginning.   
      
   > So now we have multiple encodings for '<' and '>' plus a   
   > whole host of others already represented in ASCII ?   
      
   I don’t see any such in the new Legacy Computing block.   
      
   > That is crazy, it is bad enough there are multiple symbols for   
   > single-dashes and quotes.   
      
   Which ones do you think are not distinctly different?   
      
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