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I'm not sure bulking up melpa is worth it for the infinitesimal number of people who would find it useful.

Tangentially I really wish letters eth and thorn had not disappeared. They were certainly better than what we've got now, the 'th' digraph for both.

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In English the voiced/unvoiced distinction stopped mattering so merger of eth and thorn was warranted. A digraph is a sad compromise, but given sh/ch digraphs its now just a given standard in the language's orthography. It might be fun to use better letters for all of English's digraphs, but that ship has probably sailed at this point.

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