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Comment by ceedaxp

7 hours ago

Most of the extra glyphs are for non-Slavic (Turk languages of Central Asia and Siberia). You see the same (and worse) in Latin Unicode pages — just look at how many variations of vowels 'a', 'i', or 'e' you have, consonants like 'c', 'z', 's'…

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troupo  38 minutes ago

Even within Slavic languages there is plenty of weirdness: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48064121

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