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Because it supports Unicode, like every modern program should.
Unicode support in your coding language is great right up until someone accidentally inserts a lookalike character or closing quotation mark somewhere (phone keyboards and accessibility tools do this a lot). The code will look correct but fail to compile, and it can be a nightmare to debug if you don't know to look for it.
Any half decent compiler can find this
And any half decent ide will highlight these characters as well