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> Well, one of the underlying reasons for the lack of imagination might be... keyboards. That and the fact that it would probably take me longer to search for
by xienze 5y ago
> Well, one of the underlying reasons for the lack of imagination might be... keyboards.
That and the fact that it would probably take me longer to search for whatever obscure mathematical symbol is supposed to represent <whatever> than it would take to just type out its name.
And ASCII is just easier to deal with.
- WalterBright 5y agoAnother problem with Unicode is far too many symbols for different Unicode characters are too similar looking, or even identical. Then there are the Unicode symbols that convey semantic information rather than just the appearance. These are an abomination and should never have been put in Unicode, but here we are anyway.
- a1369209993 5y agoDon't forget different Unicode code points for the same character, like U+4B/U+212A(/U+39A/U+41A/...).