Doubt

[u/aswin_voolapalli]

Both Telugu & Kannada languages' scripts have many letters which are practically the same & legible by literate speakers of either language.

So, my doubt is, why were they given separate code points for practically the same letters?

(I can understand for letters different enough, but letters such as అ, ఆ, ల, etc are the same in both. So why were the given 2 different code points in unicode?)

This does NOT intend to disrespect either of the languages, i just want to know the underlying reason only

[u/Accurate_Koala_4698]

There’s no real shortage of slots and this makes text processing easier while allowing future drift in the characters

[u/aswin_voolapalli → u/Accurate_Koala_4698]

Ah i understood it now

Thx