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Y [was: "Re: new sigil"]
From:
Michele Dondi
Date:
October 20, 2005 10:05
Subject:
Y [was: "Re: new sigil"]
Message ID:
Pine.LNX.4.62.0510201902050.10654@vodka.pcteor1.mi.infn.it
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Juerd wrote:
> All non-ASCII operators have ASCII equivalents:
>
> ¥ Y
> « <<
> » >>
Speaking of which the advantage of, say, « over << is that the former is
_one_ charachter. But Y, compared to ¥, is one charachter only as well,
and is even more visually distinctive with most fonts I know of, afaict,
so is there any good reason to keep the latter as the "official" one?!?
Michele
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