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Although I imagine there are contexts that the current behavior is more appropriate? I imagine some of the uses of those Unicode characters are actually as intended (semantic), not just for different presentation.
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So perhaps that replacement would only kick in if they “look like words”. Whatever that means.
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The semantic usage of most of these font-variant symbols [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_Alphanumeric_Symbols …] is chalkboard math.
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