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by matheusmoreira 2235 days ago
> albeit they can be more cumbersome to type if your editor doesn’t help, i.e. ctrl+k "=>" in Vim

I wonder why physical keyboards lack unicode support. Virtual keyboards often have great support for this. Older keyboards could also input a lot of symbols:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Space-ca...

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Could be an issue with agreeing on a standard. But also, the average user would rather have emojis on a keyboard before various math symbols (and, outside work, I'd feel the same).