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Is Unicode an adequate representation of written language?  I find it
interesting that the first block of Unicode is dedicated to control
codes for teletypewriters, video terminals, and information systems,
yet there is no human-language "control code" for a line break.  A
line break in particular is important because it's the one universal
spatial element of text composition, the spatial punctuation mark.
We have control codes for "carriage return" and "line feed" –
operations performed by a teletypewriter – but no code for "end of
a written line".

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