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The first 256 code points mirror the [[ISO/IEC 8859-1]] standard, with the intent of trivializing the conversion of text already written in Western European scripts. To preserve the distinctions made by different legacy encodings, therefore allowing for conversion between them and Unicode without any loss of information, many [[duplicate characters in Unicode|characters nearly identical to others]], in both appearance and intended function, were given distinct code points. For example, the [[Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (Unicode block)|Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms]] block encompasses a full semantic duplicate of the Latin alphabet, because legacy [[CJK characters|CJK encodings]] contained both "fullwidth" (matching the width of CJK characters) and "halfwidth" (matching ordinary Latin script) characters.
The Unicode Bulldog Award is given to people deemed to be influential in Unicode's development, with recipients including [[Tatsuo Kobayashi]], Thomas Milo,
=== {{anchor|Unicode 88}}History ===
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