Yes. Unicode should not be about semantic meaning, it should be about the visual. Like text in a book.
> And, for example, Greek words containing this letter should be encoded with a mix of Latin and Greek characters?
Yup. Consider a printed book. How can you tell if a letter is a Greek letter or a Latin letter?
Those Unicode homonyms are a solution looking for a problem.
Do you think 1, l and I should be encoded as the same character, or does this logic only extend to characters pesky foreigners use.
And that's where it went off the rails into lala land. 'a' can have all kinds of distinct meanings. How are you going to make that work? It's hopeless.
I can absolutely tell Cyrillic k from the lating к and latin u from the Cyrillic и.
>should not be about semantic meaning,
It's always better to be able to preserve more information in a text and not less.
They look visually distinct to me. I don't get your point.
> It's always better to be able to preserve more information in a text and not less.
Text should not lose information by printing it and then OCR'ing it.
While at it we could also unify I, | and l. It's too confusing sometimes.
They render differently, so it's not a problem.