In particular there was a desire to make sure that a round trip from some legacy...

mark-r on April 30, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why isn't the external link symbol in Unicode? (20...

In particular there was a desire to make sure that a round trip from some legacy character set to Unicode and back to the legacy character set wouldn't lose information. So many characters that you would assume to be the same are given multiple code points to make that possible.

bmn__ on May 1, 2020 [–]

Indeed :) https://hackertimes.com/item?id=22682841