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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