You make a good point about being quirky. People using these "font" tools for Unicode should at least know about the problems it creates so they don't think it

You make a good point about being quirky. People using these "font" tools for Unicode should at least know about the problems it creates so they don't think it works smoothly like proper font styling. Personally my brain classifies overuse of Unicode as visual spam and just moves on to other more plain content.