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Right now this page just contains info on special characters that are likely to be interesting/useful for en. Hopefully it can be expanded into a policy on their use.
Unicode provides an international standard which has the goal of providing the means to encode the text of every document people want to store on computers. This includes all scripts in active use today, many scripts known only by scholars, and symbols which do not strictly represent scripts, like mathematical, linguistic and APL symbols.