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> were replaced with "equivalent" Greek or Cyrillic one

The subset of equivalent letters, or different ones? If they looked the same, it wouldn't bother me if the letters in the center were a single codepoint between European languages:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Venn_dia...



I am disappointed that that diagram omits ꙮ [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiocular_O


The problem is they don't look the same. So imagine, for instance, Я instead of "R" or И instead of "N" (I don't think the sounds are actually equivalent but let's run with it for the sake of example). Not insurmountable. One could still read a text with these substitutions. But it'd be distracting, and extra detrimental for people who don't speak English as their first language.


The ones in the center are in all three sets, they do look the same. The outer areas are out of bounds.




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