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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 9y ago
  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 9y ago
    You wouldn't? You would need to know by context?
    • skookumchuck 9y ago
      > by context exactly!