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People of the Internet, hear me:
Stop using symbols from languages that you do not speak for purely aesthetic purposes! Just because those glyphs don’t mean anything to you doesn’t mean they’re meaningless to everybody!
I’m talking to you, Wikipedia/bulletin board posters who always put “ツ” after their names. It may look like a smiley face to you, but it says “tsu” to me and 130 million other people in the world. This is obviously becoming a trend and it’s an annoying one. When you sign your posts “SmileeGurl6ツ” I read “smileygirlsixtsu” and then have to reboot my brain before I can read the next line.
If it’s in the middle of a bunch of punctuation and is clearly an emoticon, that’s fine; all bets are off then. But not by itself in the middle of a word! If you absolutely must use a 16-bit smiley face, may I suggest U+263A, which is clearly a smiley face: ☺.
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