The reason they do this is for backwards compatibility. It’s much nicer to have “lime” show up as a lemon with a green square than an empty box replacement char

The reason they do this is for backwards compatibility. It’s much nicer to have “lime” show up as a lemon with a green square than an empty box replacement character. Also, I’ve eaten some half green, half yellow lemonoids. The color consistency of lemons and limes is mostly a supermarket fiction.