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I agree the page is somewhat roundabout in its current state since I went from the background to the symptom to the fix. Open to suggestions on rearranging the

• wodenokoto 5y ago
  I would have the knives blades chart a little earlier, and make it very obvious that each character shares a code point (maybe have a code point column) and talk about in the text that yes, this is weird. 3 visually distinct Unicode characters share a single code point. For me this was very hard to wrap my head around the first time I encountered the problem. Maybe other people find it hard to understand in different ways. I believe that Unicode even claims that distinctly looking characters are to have their own code points, but similarly looking characters should share a code point (e.g, there is no French a and English a, even though they are pronounced differently. And Danish ø and Swedish ö are pretty much the same pronunciation but differently written, so they don’t share a code point.)
  • needle0 5y ago
    Thanks. I reworded it a bit and put more emphasis on code points.