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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 12:41:21 +0000
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 C compiler for RISC-V by Richard Miller
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On Tue, Oct 30, 2018, at 4:52 AM, Lucio De Re wrote:
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> Is there a technical reason (beside fonts that do not cover them) not
> to use a Unicode values for the first letter?

Not a major reason, but at least one of Plan 9's build tools compares them as C chars, and would need to be fixed.  I can't remember which one it is right now.

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