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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Unicode 16 Is Out
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 22:02:49 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 19:35:29 -0000 (UTC), John McCue wrote:

> Legacy to me means all these symbols were 7-bit ASCII.

ASCII was already included in Unicode from the beginning.

> So now we have multiple encodings for '<' and '>' plus a
> whole host of others already represented in ASCII ?

I don’t see any such in the new Legacy Computing block.

> That is crazy, it is bad enough there are multiple symbols for
> single-dashes and quotes.

Which ones do you think are not distinctly different?