The issue is that, in this example, both the colonials and the British think the two 'g' characters are different letters, just as people nowadays think 'g' and 'G' are different characters (historically, that is at least up for debate: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case#History). Americans will want to see a different character when quoting Shakespeare inside American-English text (globalization starts with a different letter than globalisation)
because Unicode has only one character, writing that text in a text editor or storing it in a text column in a database becomes impossible.
Yes, there are workarounds such as using escape characters or html, but those are a nuisance that could be avoided by including both variants in Unicode.
The unicode consortium is entitled to think differently, but they cannot expect everybody to be happy with their choice.
because Unicode has only one character, writing that text in a text editor or storing it in a text column in a database becomes impossible.
Yes, there are workarounds such as using escape characters or html, but those are a nuisance that could be avoided by including both variants in Unicode.
The unicode consortium is entitled to think differently, but they cannot expect everybody to be happy with their choice.