[totetsu]

Given that writing systems we have today are pre-digital systems of marks made with the human body and tools, all encoding of text in our HCI is a simulation of writing. Simulations by nature cannot be 100% accurate. choices have to be made about what is represented and simulated. choices have to be made about what to leave out. Simulations are a form of communication, they put forward a perspective about what is the important part of what is being simulated. Seeing a symbol like "﷽" really brought home for me some of the assumptions about writing that I take for granted, and are inherently "argued for" by the way text is handled in our digital systems.