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What's up with everyone using this "þ" character instead of "th"? (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 13 points 2 days ago

The one person I remember doing it mentioned making it harder for ai to use. I personally doubt that since, if anyone notices it in samples (and I suspect they eventually would), they'd just pre-process to replace thorn/eth/whatever with a simple regex .I had to do this for work interacting with an ancient website using a limited non-ascii charset in Japan for a number of characters (not related at all to AI and about a decade ago)