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   Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei to Carlos E.R.   
   Re: Recent history of vi   
   17 Dec 25 01:49:29   
   
   XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 23:34:43 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
      
   > On 2025-12-15 10:38, Johnny Billquist wrote:   
   >>   
   >> So, you can see that even some font selections creeped in to Unicode,   
   >> as well as rendering of things in bold or italic. And all kind of other   
   >> crazy variants and details.   
   >   
   > Searching for a "similar or equivalent" string must be a bitch.   
      
   I think Unicode offers lots of tables of information specifically to make   
   this sort of thing easier to manage.   
      
   NamesList.txt is a particularly handy one.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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