title: Why are identical characters from different alphabets encoded differently?
body: <p>For example the Latin P and the Cyrillic Р. I have never come across a font that renders these characters differently, so why the duplicates? Duplicate punctuations don't exist for Latin and Cyrillic, so why duplicate letters?</p>
  
  <p>Furthermore, why would a font designer want to encode identical characters to look differently? Isn't consistency important in a font?</p>