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OCaml’s old m17n compiler plugin solved this by requiring you pick one block per ‘word’ & you can only switch to another block if separated by an underscore. As such you can do
print_แมวbut you couldn’t dopℝint_c∀t. This is a totally reasonable solution.That's pretty cool