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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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