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Unicode will allow me to send a letter to anyone in the world, or
read any text document, mixing English, Swedish, Japanese, Hebrew,
Amharit (if it is included in Unicode), and mathematical formulas,
in a standardized nonencoded way. That's the beauty of it. That,
and nothing more.

Of course it doesn't solve typographical problems of all languages
of the world, and that was never its intended purpose. Does it e.g.
include the ligatures of Arabic? Each character in arabic can appear
in four different forms. It certainly doesn't solve the problems of
attaching vowels to Hebrew, which appear as dots above and below the
characters. It certainly doesn't solve the problems of mathematical
typesetting layout.

What it does, is that it raises the level of abstraction. Instead
of having to write \infinity I'll just see the infinity sign on the
screen. (I have a solution to the input problem if anybody is
interested.)

I don't think it should be used for font encoding, because if it
did, it should be complete and include the whole Unicode character
set. Who wants to design each font and include 16k characters? To make
matching versions of roman, greek, hebrew, japanese, etc, etc characters
of each font?

Just my \cent 2...

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