And that's where it went off the rails into lala land. 'a' can have all kinds of distinct meanings. How are you going to make that work? It's hopeless.
a) it's a bullet point
b) a+b means a is a variable
c) apple means a means the sound "aaaah"
d) ape means a means the sound "aye"
e) 0xa means a means "10"
f) "a" on my test paper means I did well on it
g) grade "a" means I bought the good bolts
h) "achtung" means it's a German "a"
I didn't need 8 different Unicode characters. And so on.
> Unicode is about semantics not appearance.
And that's where it went off the rails into lala land. 'a' can have all kinds of distinct meanings. How are you going to make that work? It's hopeless.
It already works.
Tell me what the problem is and what your proposed solution would be.
Infer the meaning from the context.
I didn't need 8 different Unicode characters. And so on.
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