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A Gemini-style proposal (specifically to the harm of using Unicode characters as if they were formatted ascii)

DJ Chase u9000 at posteo.mx

Wed Nov 3 17:05:40 GMT 2021

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Others have already said what I would say about the rest of this thread,so I will skip that part.

On Wed, 2021-11-03 at 12:41 +0200, babiak wrote:

If Gemtext can ignore the original semantics of the asterisk, the

back-tick, the pound symbol, the equal symbol, and the greater-than

symbol — then why can't we also do the same with those mathematical

characters?

I personally don't recall the pound symbol having any meaning in gemini,

I'll have to look through the spec again. However!

Charles is refering to '#', not '£'. '#' is called the 'pound{sign,symbol}' in the telephone system.

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