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Re:Unicode Text Converter by Flimm on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @06:14AM (#8629370)
Indeed, this is technically a misuse of Unicode.
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Re:Unicode Text Converter by masklinn on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @06:25AM (#8629400)
It's unclear whether you're talking about the page or the unicode block.

For the page, that's fairly obvious when you look at the pseudoalphabet converters.

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Re:Unicode Text Converter by coldtea on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @06:48AM (#8629487)
If you refer to those characters, no it's not. It's not just a different style for the same character, it has semantic meaning.
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