&gt; Sticking with the ASCII representation does have one real thing going for it: it visually represents the way you type it.<p>IMO, this is more of an issue with special symbols being tricky to type. I used to be symbol-phobic like that until I learned how to configure how the Compose-key behaves in my system. Now all the symbols I commonly use (greek letters, funny arrows and some math stuff) are very easy to type. I went ahead and replaced the latex macros in my thesis with their unicode equivalents and things became immensely more readable.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Compose_key" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Compose_key</a>
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