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by bawolff 102 days ago
> Yes. Unicode should not be about semantic meaning, it should be about the visual. Like text in a book.

Do you think 1, l and I should be encoded as the same character, or does this logic only extend to characters pesky foreigners use.

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They are visually distinct to the reader.
That is entirely dependent on the font.