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From: John McCue <jmccue@reddwf.jmcunx.com>
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Subject: Re: Unicode 16 Is Out
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 19:35:29 -0000 (UTC)
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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/>

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