Speaking of which the advantage of, say, « over << is that the former
is _one_ charachter. But Y, compared to ¥, is one charachter only as
well, and is even more visually distinctive with most fonts I know of,
afaict, so is there any good reason to keep the latter as the
"official" one?!?
Do you even need to ask? It's because it *looks cool* :)
We need *more* of these. I can't wait until the day when I can finally
code in overloaded Tagalog or Gujarati:
http://www.iam.uni-bonn.de/~alt/html/unicode_23.html