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I was about to report this to the mods, but then you... all of a sudden... At this point, all that's left to say are...... ellipses............

ᵯ ⋛ ␛ ☃ ☠ ☭ ꈚ ꊪ Unicode is fun. There is more or less everything there, even Fuwa users. Hello @Rooke ♜♖ ௌ <-- that's one single character I didn't find the dollarpound sign, but I did find this ₠. It's the original Euro sign. They then changed it to € before they actually printed the money, but nobody came up with the idea not to include to old one in unicode. Or more on topic, here are 4 characters: ⁇ ⁈ ⁉ ‼ If you claim there are 8 characters on that line, then you better stop drinking now. They are only 4 according to unicode.

You're welcome. (Still working on the dollarpound.)

UCS-2 support, which I'm pretty certain has every character a VN would need, has been pretty well baked-in to Windows for an eternity, in software terms; I'd expect that Windows 2000 had everything you'd need to do a VN engine in UCS-2. Most likely, the reason they're sticking to the old multi-byte pages is that nobody wants to update old VN engines, because it's a waste of money and time to try to fix things that aren't broken. And even if/when someone builds a "new engine", they almost certainly pull over a ton of code from a previous one anyway, in all likelihood bringing that multi-byte dependency along with them.

Hmm. This is one where I have to disagree with you, Darbury. To me, consistency is paramount, even over the subtle additional shade of meaning you might get by carefully considering and ordering the ? and ! based on that. My preference is to pick one and go with it. I don't actually care which one, but my fingers do type ?! more naturally than !?, so in the absence of any better reason, I'd probably go with that one. But the best option might be the direction Rooke is going: avoid the issue entirely. Most VNs are filled with more punctuation than a balloon is air - they can benefit from a little puncture and subsequent depunctuation. Drop a bunch of bangs and replace them with periods (or with nothing, if they were previously part of an interrobang), and you can usually end up with something that's probably better overall anyway. Especially if, in doing so, you get to reduce all the ridiculous double-bangs down to single bangs.