Not at all. It's just inconvenient for most of the Windows-using world, as the characters are not accessible. It's ALT+[whatever] or Google-it-and-ctrl+V. He

Not at all. It's just inconvenient for most of the Windows-using world, as the characters are not accessible. It's ALT+[whatever] or Google-it-and-ctrl+V. Hence an awful lot of internet writing didn't really use any of that stuff properly. See, e.g., Boss Szabo's blog: https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-many-traditions-of-non-governmental.html https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-many-tradition... Two chained hypens, as was pretty much the norm back then. And did you just call me an NPC?!? It's not a matter of "understanding the language" at all. It's a matter of convenience and of a sort of evolved convention.