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Angzarr: A Unicode character that has an unknown origin

by Avi-D-coder on 3/28/24, 1:52 AM with 1 comments

  • by Arnt on 3/28/24, 6:17 AM

    FWIW it has a specific purpose in Unicode: compatibility.

    "it should be possible to convert from x to Unicode and back and get the same result" is a design principle, for a large number of x. Adding SGML to the list at a cost of one code point is reasonable.