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[–] mrpants@midwest.social 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In cases where something looks stupid but your knowledge on it is almost zero it's entirely possible that it's not.

The people that maintain Unicode have put a lot of thought and effort into this. Might be helpful to research why rather than assuming you have a better way despite little knowledge of the subject.