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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Wouldn't surprise me if even Unicode advices against using Roman numerals depending on meaning.

It was mostly a joke (though frankly if you try any implementation more complicated than that joke you're going to have a bad time).