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Re: Y [was: "Re: new sigil"]

From:
Rutger Vos
Date:
October 21, 2005 06:58
Subject:
Re: Y [was: "Re: new sigil"]
Message ID:
4357EA41.6030206@sfu.ca

> 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



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