Yeah, Unicode shipped 35 years ago. If you want a ≠ then use a ≠.
I wish more languages other than Raku did this. But no, not equal is written as surprised equal. And if something ought to be less or equal, you have to write a fat arrow pointing left. :/
Then you just need a programming language that accepts ≠ as a synonym of !=. But who knows, maybe there is already one?
But languages are made by older or less progressive people, so of course you can't use ≠ Unicode in your language enforcing ascii