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::::What? I don't know about Egyption or Thai, but I do speak Chinese. There are historical (very rare) Chinese glyphs that don't have code points defined in Unicode, and there is the Unihan scheme that some people feel can be improved, but what is this "not sufficiently different from each other to prevent confusion" you are talking about? And even if it were true, whatever it means, how is that worse than not being able to write certain things at all? --[[User:Ledrug|Ledrug]] 00:13, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
:::: The triangle symbol was a good example, but it is not the only problematic symbol. There was a really excellent article on this, but I can't find at the moment. What can you not write, because the source code is limited to ASCII? BTW I am not saying don't use Unicode output on a graphical display, I am just saying that source code should be editable using a traditional ascii based editor, and the symbols should be limited to those that are available on an ascii based keyboard. [[User:Markhobley|Markhobley]] 23:03, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
::::: Actually keyboard entry is important. I haven't got delta keys on my keyboard. To get that triangle, I have to type 56 keys: \u25b3, and this does not
actually produce the triangle visual, but a gives a backslash followed by the hex code that I typed. [[User:Markhobley|Markhobley]] 23:35, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
 
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