A last missing link for interoperable representation

[Julian Bradfield via Unicode]

On 2019-01-12, James Kass via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:

> Sounds like you didn't try it.  VS characters are default ignorable.

By software that has a full understanding of Unicode. There is a very
large world out there of software that was written before Unicode was
dreamed of, let alone popular.

> apricot
> a︁p︁r︁i︁c︁o︁t︁
> Notepad finds them both if you type the word "apricot" into the search box.

What has Notepad to do with me?

> "But for plain text, it's crazy."
>
> Are you a member of the plain-text user community?

Certainly:)

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