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|    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?              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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