UTF-8 Unicode operators vs digraphs

Adam D. Ruppe destructionator at gmail.com
Fri Aug 14 00:41:07 UTC 2026


On Friday, 14 August 2026 at 00:17:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Bottom line: you should be able to print a page written in 
> Unicode, then OCR it and get back the same Unicode text (at 
> least for the non-blank points).

Plenty of fonts make I and l look pretty much the same. Sometimes 
1 too. And 0 and O may be hard to see.

Maybe they shouldn't, but enough do that I'm glad there is 
semantic meaning attached independently of the appearance some 
design committee decided ought to work for everyone.


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