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My guess would be because of semantics. The plain version is the character itself used in text. The squared version is a specific symbol used in television for
by cooper12 10y ago
My guess would be because of semantics. The plain version is the character itself used in text. The squared version is a specific symbol used in television for "designated hitter". It's the same reason that there are unicode characters that looks exactly like latin characters, except they're in different unicode blocks. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoglyph#Unicode_homoglyphs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoglyph#Unicode_homoglyphs)
- Symbiote 10y agoIt will be for compatibility with those old encodings. Otherwise, these two codepoints should be used: U+6307 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6307 U+20DE COMBINING ENCLOSING SQUARE To give this: 指⃞ That can work on any character, and there are other enclosing options: X⃝ circle X⃞ square X⃟ diamond X⃠ backslash circle X⃢ screen X⃣ keycap X⃤ triangle So we can make an escape key: ␛⃣ U+241B SYMBOL FOR ESCAPE; U+20E3 COMBINING ENCLOSING KEYCAP