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by JdeBP 393 days ago
One "fun" aspect to this is that there's not just 1 but 13 extra copies of the English alphabet in Unicode that are there specifically for mathematicians to name stuff in formulae and equations.

And with the exceptions of Fraktur and script, free fonts that are already sans-serif and monospace generally do not make the glyphs visually distinct from the actual English alphabet characters similarly weighted and slanted.

Which gives the sighted people a taste of what the sight-impaired people have to suffer when people abuse these code points as ways to write in italics or boldface, because the screen readers correctly obey the important note in Unicode Technical Report 25 that these letters do not combine to make words, and read them out as mathematical formulae where "d" is multiplied by "o" and then by "g".