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Rather than new planes, some sort of combining-character or even just an invisible signifying-mark would achieve the same purpose with far less encoding space. Obviously this would still be a nightmare for everyone who has to process text regardless.


Nope. Too easy to accidentally strip out. Each and every glyph must carry the taint.

We don’t want to send innocent people to jail! (Use UCS-18 for maximum benefit.)




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