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Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 05:43:53 +1100
Subject: Re: Newbie question about text encoding
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On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 5:03 AM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> What I was trying to say expanded here
> http://blog.languager.org/2015/03/whimsical-unicode.html
> [Hope  the word 'whimsical' is less jarring and more accurate than 'gibbe=
rish']

Re footnote #4: =C2=BD is a single character for compatibility reasons.
=E2=85=9F=E2=82=81=E2=82=80=E2=82=80 doesn't need to be a single character,=
 because there are
countably infinite vulgar fractions and only 0x110000 Unicode
characters.

ChrisA