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Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> > ... even *Americans* cannot represent all their common characters in
> > ASCII, let alone specialised characters from mathematics, science,
> > the printing industry, and law.
>
> Aside: What additional characters does law use that aren't in ASCII?
> Section § and paragraph ¶ are used frequently, but you already
> mentioned the printing industry. Are there other symbols?

ASCII does not contain “©” (U+00A9 COPYRIGHT SIGN) nor “®” (U+00AE
REGISTERED SIGN), for instance.

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