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kps
on May 29, 2017
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Unicode is hard
That's up to font designers. As an extreme example, run 'xterm -fn nil2' and you'll have a whole lot of code points having the same glyphs.
skookumchuck
on May 29, 2017
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To some extent you're right, but the problem is much more than can be blamed on font designers. How would you distinguish a Turkish i from an English i with a font?
worldsayshi
on May 30, 2017
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You wouldn't? You would need to know by context?
skookumchuck
on May 30, 2017
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> by context
exactly!
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