It's not entirely unprecedented. Modern cyrillic shapes are in part influenced by the printing press - when it was being imported in Russia, they didn't want to

It's not entirely unprecedented. Modern cyrillic shapes are in part influenced by the printing press - when it was being imported in Russia, they didn't want to mill an entire new set of characters, so they repurposed the latin ones that look like cyrillic characters and only added the ones that were missing. Of course, parent's suggestion will never pass, as it will require everyone everywhere to start using spaces, which is more trouble than it's worth to native language users.