Carl Anderson <carl.ander...@ww.com> added the comment:

>Carl: can you say more about the problem that motivated this issue?

@mark.dickinson

I was parsing a large corpus of ingredients strings from web-scraped recipes. 
My code to interpret strings such as "1/2 cup sugar" would fall over every so 
often due to this issue as they used fraction slash and other visually similar 
characters

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