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Why do characters like this even exist? I've run into this before where I couldn't find a file I'd downloaded by searching for it. I remembered what folder it was in and checked it was still there, after playing around with the name for a bit I realised the "a" in the file name wasn't actually an a.
Simple answer is that Unicode is a design by committee attempting to make every single human written language work. It's more complicated than it needs to be, but we also don't want to redo all the work it would take to replace it with something more sane. Especially KJC languages. Trying to get those three to agree on anything is for people who deal with frustration better than me.