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the only reason we tolerate it is because it does tremendous good making things more equitable for other languages and cultures.

Let me rewrite that from the opposite perspective.

The reason I use it is so that I can write in my language.



Writing in your language is fine.

Writing in a language the reader doesn't understand is ... not so fine.

Writing in a way to give the appearance of one message but the machine-recognised existence of another is ... wrong, malicious, and harmful.

At root the issue is that encodings and graphical presentations aren't the same thing. 7-bit ASCII is limited and constrained, but as a universally understood encoding those specific characteristics are useful benefits. Yes, it means that representations are limited. But that's the essential trade-off for a lack of ambiguity.

And even within ASCII, there are homoglyphs or near-homoglyphs: {0O,1lI, 5S} being the most frequently encountered. Kerning and ligatures may present others, as with {m, rn}. In historical documents, distinguishing {ſ, f}.




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