>Yup. Consider a printed book. How can you tell if a letter is a Greek letter or a Latin letter?
I can absolutely tell Cyrillic k from the lating к and latin u from the Cyrillic и.
>should not be about semantic meaning,
It's always better to be able to preserve more information in a text and not less.
> I can absolutely tell Cyrillic k from the lating к and latin u from the Cyrillic и.
They look visually distinct to me. I don't get your point.
> It's always better to be able to preserve more information in a text and not less.
Text should not lose information by printing it and then OCR'ing it.