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How about an l and an I? Or a closed "a" and one with the little handle? A zero with a stroke, a zero without a stroke, and an O? I can see where you're coming
by dullcrisp 3y ago
How about an l and an I? Or a closed "a" and one with the little handle? A zero with a stroke, a zero without a stroke, and an O?
I can see where you're coming from, but deduplicating every glyph from every culture based on which do or don't generally look the same when printed sounds like a tall order. And if all you want to record is the shape, you can use a PNG with OCR and bypass Unicode entirely.
- WalterBright 3y ago> How about an l and an I? Or a closed "a" and one with the little handle? A zero with a stroke, a zero without a stroke, and an O? Those are font differences, not character differences. (Unicode has also failed by adding in some fonts. The nuttiness never ends.)
- dullcrisp 3y agoBut just as the “a” in alphabet and the «а» in азбука are only distinguishable by context, so too the “O” in SOS and the 0 in 90210 are often only distinguishable by context. I don’t see how you propose to determine which glyphs should be the same and which should be different in your system.
- WalterBright 3y ago> so too the “O” in SOS and the 0 in 90210 are often only distinguishable by context Only if it's a bad font.