UTF-8 Unicode operators vs digraphs

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On Saturday, 15 August 2026 at 06:54:59 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 8/14/2026 7:38 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> You totally missed my point.  My point is that n and п are the 
>> SAME
>> THING in Cyrillic.
> The Unicode standard shows a picture of each glyph. If there 
> are more than one with the same glyph, they should have the 
> same code point. It's as simple as that.
Папа = papa
It's also pronounced that way.
If every glyph, that has a lookalike, had the same grapheme, 
you'd constantly have to switch fonts to not break the other 
language or use script indicators. In other words you'd be 
reinventing codepages.

Historically Cyrillic has been changed to look more like Latin 
script.
https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/28009/when-did-other-slavic-nations-adopt-the-latin-inspired-look-of-printed-cyrillic
However other languages have lookalikes too:
Armenian Small Letter Vo ո
Armenian Small Letter Seh ս
Greek Small Letter Kappa κ