Whether the ideographs are the "same" or not is definitely a can of worm, both academically and politically speaking. I am aware of the limits that the origina

Whether the ideographs are the "same" or not is definitely a can of worm, both academically and politically speaking. I am aware of the limits that the original Unicode specs were subjected to, which adds to my grief on how things could have been. Now that it has taken over the world we have to deal with wrong characters displayed for many applications. (Even modern day iOS has problems displaying mixed language content in system text fields.) I don't know much about the history of western languages, so I cannot comment on the issue, just that it feels unjustified that during development CJK languages got crammed together and messed up (no matter who did it). More and more emojis and other symbols just rub salt into the wound.