> 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?!? Do you even need to ask? It's because it *looks cool* :) We need *more* of these. I can't wait until the day when I can finally code in overloaded Tagalog or Gujarati: http://www.iam.uni-bonn.de/~alt/html/unicode_23.html