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From: Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com>
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Subject: Re: Unicode 16 Is Out
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2024 19:59:04 +0100
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John McCue <jmccue@reddwf.jmcunx.com> writes:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> <snip>
>> and some legacy computing symbols.
>
> I wonder what this means.  Legacy to me means all these symbols
> were 7-bit ASCII.  So now we have multiple encodings for '<'
> and '>' plus a whole host of others already represented in
> ASCII ?
>
> That is crazy, it is bad enough there are multiple symbols
> for single-dashes and quotes.
>
> <snip>
>> <http://blog.unicode.org/>

The £ is obviously essential.