Why shouldn’t I use Unicode characters to simulate typographic styles (such as small caps or script)?

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Accepted answer links:
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[STIX]: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIX_Fonts_project
[image]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/Gh4CO.png
[Cyrillic italics sometimes look very different from their upright counterparts]: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_script#Letterforms_and_typography
[that XKCD about the inevitable failure of unifying standards]: http://xkcd.com/927/

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Answer 3 links:
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