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		hombre_fatal on Dec 29, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We should administer Covid-19 vaccines as fast as ... > 10٪ FWIW, that "Arabic percent sign" is barely visible on my 13" laptop while ASCII's "%" is impossible to miss.

rsync on Dec 29, 2020 [–]

Yeah ... genuinely interested: What typing tool, or mechanism, were you using that your '1' '0' and '%' typed out in a different character set than the rest of your comment ?

Or was it manually inserted ? If so, why ?

wbl on Dec 30, 2020 | [–]

I just used my phone keyboard. No idea it mapped to that character!

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