You are SERIOUSLY suggesting that typing 'Ctrl-Shift-U 2 1 9 2 <enter>' is easier for me than typing '->' as I do now!?

And it remains easier if I use a different computer where I have to figure out or remember some different way of getting the Unicode code point into the editor?

The goal of this being to wind up with source code that will render gray boxes for unknown character if I don't have the right font or the right display context?

Even if *I* don't start using that special character (or others), I wind up having to edit and view code that other people have written, which means I need to deal with a tool stack to handle things that are hard to enter on most keyboards.

As is... my editor looks like this. I don't type all those special things, except once in a configuration file. But the "prettification" is handled transparently when I type some ASCII sequences.

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not-yet born. Vampiric capital and undead corporate persons abuse
the lives and control the thoughts of homo faber. Ideas, once born,
become abortifacients against new conceptions.