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Unicode has a certain amount of duplication of characters. These are pairs of single Unicode code points that are canonically equivalent. The reason for this are compatibility issues with legacy systems. Unless two characters are canonically equivalent, they are not "duplicate" in the narrow sense. There is, however, room for disagreement on whether two Unicode characters really encode the same grapheme in cases such as the U+00B5 µ MICRO SIGN versus U+03BC μ GREEK SMALL LETTER MU.

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  • Unicode has a certain amount of duplication of characters. These are pairs of single Unicode code points that are canonically equivalent. The reason for this are compatibility issues with legacy systems. Unless two characters are canonically equivalent, they are not "duplicate" in the narrow sense. There is, however, room for disagreement on whether two Unicode characters really encode the same grapheme in cases such as the U+00B5 µ MICRO SIGN versus U+03BC μ GREEK SMALL LETTER MU. This should be clearly distinguished from Unicode characters that are rendered as identical glyphs or near-identical glyphs (homoglyphs), either because they are historically cognate (such as Greek Η vs. Latin H) or because of coincidental similarity (such as Greek Ρ vs. Latin P, or Greek Η vs. Cyrillic Н, or the following homoglyph sextuplet: astronomical symbol for "Sun" ☉, "circled dot operator" ⊙, the Gothic letter 𐍈, the IPA symbol for a bilabial click ʘ, the Osage letter 𐓃, the Tifinagh letter ⵙ). (en)
  • Unicode permet une duplication de certains caractères de façon à permettre la conversion des anciens codages vers l'Unicode sans perte d'information. Ces caractères sont parfois affichés de manière identique, mais peuvent l'être avec une taille ou un style différent, de manière à satisfaire les attentes des anciens systèmes. (fr)
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  • Unicode permet une duplication de certains caractères de façon à permettre la conversion des anciens codages vers l'Unicode sans perte d'information. Ces caractères sont parfois affichés de manière identique, mais peuvent l'être avec une taille ou un style différent, de manière à satisfaire les attentes des anciens systèmes. (fr)
  • Unicode has a certain amount of duplication of characters. These are pairs of single Unicode code points that are canonically equivalent. The reason for this are compatibility issues with legacy systems. Unless two characters are canonically equivalent, they are not "duplicate" in the narrow sense. There is, however, room for disagreement on whether two Unicode characters really encode the same grapheme in cases such as the U+00B5 µ MICRO SIGN versus U+03BC μ GREEK SMALL LETTER MU. (en)
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  • Duplicate characters in Unicode (en)
  • Duplication de caractères Unicode (fr)
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