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[โ€“] Valmond@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Let's store the boolean there then!!

[โ€“] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago

That boolean can indicate if it's a fancy character, that way all ASCII characters are themselves but if the boolean is set it's something else. We could take the other symbol from a page of codes to fit the users language.
Or we could let true mean that the character is larger, allowing us to transform all of unicode to a format consisting of 8 bits parts.