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Joker_vDyesterday at 9:53 PM1 replyview on HN

Letterlike Symbols and Fullwidth Forms are in BMP (and I generously consider Enclosed Alphanumerics to not be a copy of a Latin alphabet).


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gucci-on-fleekyesterday at 11:04 PM

Letterlike Symbols is a bit of a weird grab bag of characters, most of which are clearly distinct from their "regular" Latin versions, but I do agree that a few of them are pointless exact copies of regular Latin letters.

The fullwidth/halfwidth stuff is a bit of a mess, but you could argue that these are actually CJK characters that just happen to resemble Latin characters (much like how Greek and Cyrillic both happen to have letters that look a lot like the Latin "A"), since they only exist for compatibility with older CJK encodings. This wouldn't be a very good argument though :)