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[–] Contravariant@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Wouldn't surprise me if even Unicode advices against using Roman numerals depending on meaning.

It was mostly a joke (though frankly if you try any implementation more complicated than that joke you're going to have a bad time).