Weirdly, there _are_ separate codepoints for simplified vs traditional chinese characters, cf. 丟 (traditional) vs 丢 (simplified) [1]. This contributes to the an

Weirdly, there _are_ separate codepoints for simplified vs traditional chinese characters, cf. 丟 (traditional) vs 丢 (simplified) [1]. This contributes to the annoyance of Japanese users, it feels like the unicode consortium went out of their way to mangle only their language. [1] One major reason is that pre-Unicode charsets exist which encode both traditional and simplified characters, and one of the primary goals of Unicode is to support round-trip mapping from any charset into Unicode and back without loss of information.