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I can't really say why, but that's not the only ligature in Unicode. (œ actually is one too.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligature_(writing)#Ligatures_in_Uni

• Aardwolf 3y ago
  œ is not used in Dutch, while oe is. The o and the e are never stuck together like that. In French œ does happen and they indeed are stuck together like that there. In Dutch when handwriting you just write an o followed by an e as you always would, while in French you really learn a different symbol when handwriting it and I wouldn't be surprised there are French words with an o followed by an e without using œ [edit, found one: moelle].