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by Aeolun 570 days ago
Reprint them with new spelling? We have 500 year old books that are unreadable. 99.99% of all books published will not be relevant to anyone that isn’t consuming them right at that moment anyway.

Lovers can read the lord of the rings in the ‘original’ spelling.

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The point is that you still want the universal encoding to be able to represent such texts.