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		dartos on June 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ECMA-17: Graphical representation of control chara... Why have symbolic and alphabetic, I wonder

dusted on June 25, 2024 [–]

I think the idea was to be able to communicate them on devices that did not have the symbols (which turned out to be pretty much all of them)

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