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Call me old fashioned, but maybe if people want to communicate "this" they should just type "this" and stop trying to be so Internet-quirky.
by ryandrake 2y ago
Call me old fashioned, but maybe if people want to communicate "this" they should just type "this" and stop trying to be so Internet-quirky.
- Ukv 2y agoI think that comes back to: > Here the use is fairly frivolous, but most such character sets do have legitimate use - like fullwidth latin characters for readability when used alongside CJK - so really shouldn't just be skipped. The use given in the article is quirky - but these are real characters with proper uses and shouldn't just be skipped.
- eviks 2y agoOld fashioned people dead centuries ago used formatting for their letters, no reason this is in any way "Internet-quirky", the real internet quirk stems entirely from silly platform constraints