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I'm sort of wondering how Ms non-Unicode-squiggle manages to type her non-Unicode-squiggle into the form field in the first place.


There are other encoding systems than Unicode out there.


Sure; I was reacting to the specific concept of a "non-Unicode-squiggle", implying that the character has no known mechanism for encoding it (i.e. it's not simply an SJIS squiggle) and would likely have to be submitted as a custom bitmap/vector path. That's a good place to draw the line.


The whole point is that there are characters in use in certain languages that have accepted mechanisms for encoding in some non-Unicode character encoding system used for that language, but not in Unicode.




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