> so what harm is there in one codepoint no one will ever need? Fonts bloat (do you want a font with 1 million characters in it ? I don’t. Do you want to have

> so what harm is there in one codepoint no one will ever need? Fonts bloat (do you want a font with 1 million characters in it ? I don’t. Do you want to have to install 1000 fonts having 1000 characters each to be sure to cover all the Unicode table ? I don't). Lots of issues for everyday programmers (how do you handle weird unicode characters in your validation code ?) potentially leading to security issues (bypassing validation rules by close-but-different characters, phishing…)