I used Ka/Kb/Kc (upper case) for my Fairchild Clipper port, but that
doesn't work on case-insensitive file systems.
I did once make the changes for unicode, but again there can be problems
with non-Plan9 file systems, even now.



On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 at 12:43, Ethan Gardener <eekee57@fastmail.fm> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018, at 4:52 AM, Lucio De Re wrote:
>  >
> > 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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