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But these characters only look identical in some fonts. Are you saying that if you change font, some characters in a string should change appearance and others

But these characters only look identical in some fonts. Are you saying that if you change font, some characters in a string should change appearance and others should not? And what about the round-trip rule? And ligatures? Aren't those a semantic distinction?

WalterBright 7mo ago
> But these characters only look identical in some fonts. That's a problem with the fonts. > And what about the round-trip rule? Print Unicode on paper, then ocr it, and you'll get different Unicode. Oh, and normalization. > ligatures Generally an issue with rendering. > semantic distinction Unicode isn't about semantics (or shouldn't be). Consider 'a'. It's used for all kinds of meanings.