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I am also not Unicode history expert nor Unicode expert in any way. > It looks like Unicode chose the visual look This might be true for Han characters, but

• msla 9y ago
  For Greek, Cyrillic, and Latin in specific, Unicode has to be round-trip compatible with encoding schemes which distinguish between them. (There might have been other reasons as well, but the round-trip desideratum forces it in any case.) There are a lot of characters which were explicitly encoded for such compatibility: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_compatibility_characters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_compatibility_characte... This document discusses equivalence among Unicode characters: http://unicode.org/reports/tr15/tr15-18.html http://unicode.org/reports/tr15/tr15-18.html